bluff
verb [intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbspresent simple I / you / we / they bluff | |
he / she / it bluffs | |
past simple bluffed | |
past participle bluffed | |
-ing form bluffing |
- bluff (something)
to try to make somebody believe that you will do something that you do not really intend to do, or that you know something that you do not really know Topics Personal qualitiesc2虚张声势;唬人;吹牛 Oxford Collocations DictionaryBluff is used with these nouns as the object:- way
Word Originverb late 17th cent. (originally in the sense ‘blindfold, trick’): from Dutch bluffen ‘brag’, or bluf ‘bragging’. The current sense (originally US, mid 19th cent.) originally referred to bluffing in the game of poker.
Idioms
bluff it out
to get out of a difficult situation by continuing to tell lies, especially when people suspect you are not being honest (受到怀疑后)继续蒙混过关,靠说谎摆脱困境