Bluff

//blʌf//

Synonyms for "bluff" (433 found)

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Translations

167 translations across 33 languages.

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Armenian

1 entries
  • բլեֆ noun (act of bluffing)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • безцеремонен adj (surly; churlish; gruff; rough)
  • груб adj (surly; churlish; gruff; rough)
  • отвесен adj (rising steeply with a flat or rounded front)
  • открит adj (abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 偷雞 /偷鸡 noun (poker: attempt to represent yourself as holding a stronger hand than you do)
  • 峭壁 noun (high, steep bank)
  • 懸崖 /悬崖 noun (high, steep bank)
  • 虚张声势 noun (act of bluffing)

Czech

1 entries
  • blafovat verb (to make a bluff)

Dutch

4 entries
  • bluffen noun (act of bluffing)
  • klip noun (high, steep bank)
  • klip noun (high, steep bank)
  • bluffen verb (to make a bluff)

Esperanto

4 entries
  • blufo noun (act of bluffing)
  • blufo noun (poker: attempt to represent yourself as holding a stronger hand than you do)
  • blufi verb (to make a bluff)
  • blufi verb (to scare with a false show of strength)

Finnish

4 entries
  • juro adj (surly; churlish; gruff; rough)
  • jyrkkä adj (rising steeply with a flat or rounded front)
  • jäyhä adj (surly; churlish; gruff; rough)
  • jäyhä adj (abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque)

French

2 entries
  • falaise noun (high, steep bank)
  • bluffer verb (to make a bluff)

Galician

4 entries
  • alburgada noun (act of bluffing)
  • algaruxada noun (act of bluffing)
  • algueiro noun (act of bluffing)
  • andrómena noun (act of bluffing)

Georgian

1 entries
  • ბლეფი noun (act of bluffing)

German

4 entries
  • polterig adj (abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque)
  • poltrig adj (abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque)
  • Bluff noun (poker: attempt to represent yourself as holding a stronger hand than you do)
  • Bluffen noun (act of bluffing)

Greek

1 entries
  • μπλόφα noun (act of bluffing)

Hebrew

2 entries
  • בלוף noun (act of bluffing)
  • בִּלֵּף verb (to scare with a false show of strength)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • blöff noun (act of bluffing)
  • blöfföl verb (to make a bluff)

Irish

1 entries
  • leathaill noun (high, steep bank)

Italian

4 entries
  • bluff noun (act of bluffing)
  • scogliera noun (high, steep bank)
  • bleffare verb (to make a bluff)
  • bluffare verb (to make a bluff)

Kyrgyz

1 entries
  • алда verb (to make a bluff)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • blefuoti verb (to make a bluff)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • блеф noun (act of bluffing)
  • блефира verb (to make a bluff)

Māori

1 entries
  • matapari noun (high, steep bank)

Navajo

1 entries
  • deezʼá noun (high, steep bank)

Persian

3 entries
  • بلوف noun (act of bluffing)
  • توپ زدن verb (to make a bluff)
  • لافیدن verb (to make a bluff)

Polish

4 entries
  • blef noun (act of bluffing)
  • blef noun (poker: attempt to represent yourself as holding a stronger hand than you do)
  • bluff noun (act of bluffing)
  • blefować verb (to make a bluff)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • blefe noun (act of bluffing)
  • blefe noun (poker: attempt to represent yourself as holding a stronger hand than you do)
  • bluff noun (act of bluffing)
  • bluff noun (poker: attempt to represent yourself as holding a stronger hand than you do)

Russian

4 entries
  • бесцеремо́нный adj (surly; churlish; gruff; rough)
  • гру́бый adj (surly; churlish; gruff; rough)
  • обры́вистый adj (rising steeply with a flat or rounded front)
  • отве́сный adj (rising steeply with a flat or rounded front)

Slovene

4 entries
  • blefiranje noun (act of bluffing)
  • pečina noun (high, steep bank)
  • pretvarjanje noun (act of bluffing)
  • blefirati verb (to make a bluff)

Spanish

4 entries
  • amague noun (act of bluffing)
  • blof noun (act of bluffing)
  • blofe noun (act of bluffing)
  • bluf noun (act of bluffing)

Swedish

4 entries
  • burdus adj (abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque)
  • rättfram adj (abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque)
  • bluff noun (act of bluffing)
  • bluff noun (poker: attempt to represent yourself as holding a stronger hand than you do)

Tagalog

4 entries
  • kalastugan noun (act of bluffing)
  • lastog noun (act of bluffing)
  • palipad-hangin noun (act of bluffing)
  • wikang palagwa noun (act of bluffing)

Turkish

3 entries
  • blöf noun (act of bluffing)
  • blöf noun (poker: attempt to represent yourself as holding a stronger hand than you do)
  • blöf yapmak verb (to make a bluff)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • блефува́ти verb (to make a bluff)

Welsh

2 entries
  • clogwyn noun (high, steep bank)
  • dibyn noun (high, steep bank)

Western Apache

1 entries
  • chʼinágohíʼáá noun (high, steep bank)

Sample sentences

33 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Hanako called his bluff.

Source: tatoeba (23711)

She was tempted to call his bluff, hardly believing that he would carry out his threat.

Source: tatoeba (619773)

As I stood upon the bluff before my cottage on that clear cold night in the early part of March, 1886, the noble Hudson flowing like the grey and silent spectre of a dead river below me, I felt again the strange, compelling influence of the mighty god of war, my beloved Mars, which for ten long and lonesome years I had implored with outstretched arms to carry me back to my lost love.

Source: tatoeba (1482477)

We can't call their bluff.

Source: tatoeba (1951380)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.