“bluffer”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

bluffer

释义

ˈbluffer
[f. prec. verbs.]
†1. ‘An Host or Landlord. Country word.’ Bailey 1721–1800; Ash 1775; Halliwell 1878.
2. One who bluffs at poker, etc. orig. U.S.
1888Detroit Free Press 5 May (Farmer), Is Uncle Sam a bluffer?1891‘L. Hoffmann’ Cycl. Card & Table Games 197 (Poker) Unless E has the reputation (a very undesirable one) of a habitual bluffer, B will probably begin to feel alarmed.1894Westm. Gaz. 24 Sept. 2/1 The ‘bluffer’, she who trades on the gilded European's illusion that all American girls are heiresses, and catches him under this false pretence, only to discover that she has fallen into the hands of a male ‘bluffer’ whose pretensions are equally baseless.1946Sci. News Let. 23 Mar. 188/1 The puff adder..is one of the world's biggest bluffers.

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