BLUFFING Definition & Meaning

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bluffing

[ bluhf-ing ]

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noun

the act of misleading someone by a display of strength, self-confidence, or the like:
While the bluffing goes on at the negotiating table, the public, the striking workers, and the employer all lose.
Poker, Bridge. the act of deceiving an opponent by a show of confidence in the strength of one鈥檚 cards:
The digital version of the game falls short, because the bluffing needs that eye-to-eye contact, the smug and knowing smiles.

adjective

deceiving or misleading someone by a display of strength or confidence:
Determining whether one faces a serious or bluffing adversary constitutes a major challenge in the bargaining process.
鈥淎dvertising budget鈥� is a poker term for the amount of chips a bluffing player is willing to invest to deceive opponents.

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榶心vlog History and Origins

Origin of bluffing¹

First recorded in 1845鈥�50; bluff ²( def ) + -ing ¹( def ) for the noun senses; bluff ²( def ) + -ing ²( def ) for the adjective sense

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For all these reasons, when Mohan declares that YouTube will remain the epicenter of culture, he鈥檚 not bluffing.

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While speaking to a group of business leaders on Friday, Trudeau said that Trump is not bluffing about his plans to turn Canada into "the 51st state."

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They were highly organised and unlikely to be bluffing - the traffickers had texted her children directly in the past and knew where they lived and which school they went to.

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As the conference approached its scheduled end this week, the U.N.鈥檚 climate chief chided negotiators for digging in their heels and wasting time with bluffing and brinkmanship.

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Putin has previously warned that such a move from the US would amount to direct participation of Nato countries in the war - but Maj Omelyan said this was simply 鈥渂luffing鈥�.

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