bluffy

English

Etymology

From bluff +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

bluffy (comparative more bluffy, superlative most bluffy)

1. Having bluffs, or bold steep banks.
2. Inclined to be brusque.
3. (poker) Inclined to bluff; bluffing.
   • 2010, Tri Nguyen, Aaron Davis, The Poker Blueprint:

     The check-raise looks very bluffy (although you know better than to check-raise bluff on these types of boards against stubborn opponents).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bluffy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• buffly