Bluff

Definition

bluff 1 /blʌf/ v (သူမ်ားအထင္ႀကီးေအာင္) ၿဖီးသည္၊ ျဖန္းသည္။ I don't believe he'd really do it—he's only bluffing (us). n [U, C] ၿဖီးလံုး။ လွန္႔လံုး။ The company's threat to fire anyone who went on strike was just (a) bluff. ❏ bluff sb into doing sth [ PHRV ] ညာခိုင္းသည္။ You'll never bluff them into letting you go. ❏ bluff it out [ PHRV ] အခက္အခဲမွ လွည့္ျဖား လြတ္ေျမာက္ သည္။ ❏ bluff one's way out (of sth) [ PHRV ] အက်ပ္အတည္းမွ အတည္ေပါက္ လြတ္လမ္းထြင္ထြက္သည္။ bluff 2 /blʌf/ n ပင္လယ္ကမ္းပါးျပတ္။ bluff 3 /blʌf/ adj ေဟာေဟာဒိုင္းဒိုင္းရိွေသာ။ He is kind and friendly despite his rather bluff manner. bluffness n [U]

Examples

1. They said they’d had another offer
2. but we knew they were just bluffing.
3. [bluff your way etc] : She managed to bluff her way past the guards
4. by saying she was a journalist.