bluff

bluff
I
adj
1. frank, open, honest, candid, plain-spoken, outspoken; direct, plain, straightforward, downright; crude, rough, unvarnished, burly, blustering.
2. steep, sheer, abrupt, sudden, precipitous; perpendicular, vertical; acclivitous, ascending, rising; bold, towering.
n
3. cliff, palisade, scarp, ridge, escarpment; crag, peak; headland, promontory, foreland; wall, bank, slope, height, knoll.
II
v
1. mislead, delude, deceive, bamboozle, hoodwink, fake [s.o.] out, blind, pull the wool over [s.o.'s] eyes, throw dust in [s.o.'s] eyes; fool, trick, hoax, humbug, cozen, take in, put one over on, Brit. Inf. gammon.
2. pretend, feign, fake, sham, Inf. four-flush, Inf. bull; bluster, roister, puff, Sl. blow hard, Sl. talk big; brag, boast, hector, trumpet, bluster and bluff.
n
3. sham, fake, show, false show, mere show, Inf. bull, Inf. four-flushing; bravado, braggadocio, bluster, fanfaronade.
4. fake, fraud, humbug, Inf. phony, Inf. four-flusher; blusterer, bluffer, blatherskite, Sl. blowhard, Sl. windbag; braggart, boaster, gascon, fanfaron.
5. call someone’s bluff
take one up on, take a dare, accept a challenge, take up the gauntlet

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