Bluff

(noun.) the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards.

(noun.) pretense that your position is stronger than it really is; 'his bluff succeeded in getting him accepted'.

(noun.) a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion).

(verb.) frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is.

(verb.) deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand.

(adj.) bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured; 'a bluff but pleasant manner'; 'a bluff and rugged natural leader' .

(adj.) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front; 'a bluff headland'; 'where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise'; 'a sheer descent of rock' .

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• Steel's Bayou empties into the Yazoo River between Haines' Bluff and its mouth. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• In this young sportsman, distinguished by a crisply curling auburn head and a bluff countenance, the Secretary descried the orphan. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He debarked his troops and apparently made every preparation to attack the enemy while the navy bombarded the main forts at Haines' Bluff. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• You said nothing so well, Sir Knight, I will be sworn, when you held drunken vespers with the bluff Hermit. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The rebel positions were on a bluff on the Yazoo River, some miles above its mouth. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Edison gave him one quick, searching glance and, detecting a bluff, replied in an offhand manner: There's a five-pound bottle in No. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The river was very high, the banks being overflowed except where the bluffs come to the water's edge. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• At a little distance up the river rose mighty perpendicular bluffs, from the very base of which the great river seemed to rise. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The gunboats ran up close under the bluffs, delivering their fire in return at short distances, probably without much effect. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It runs in a direction almost perpendicular to the line of bluffs on the opposite side, or east bank, of the river. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• At places it runs to the very foot of the bluffs. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Having accomplished this they recrossed the Alleghanies to Meadow Bluffs and there awaited further orders. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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