Bluff

See also: bluff

English

Bluff Railway Station, Queensland, 2017

Signpost at Bluff, New Zealand

Proper noun

Bluff

1. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Alabama.
   2. A ghost town in Nome Census Area, Alaska.
   3. Synonym of Uptown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
   4. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Texas.
   5. A town in San Juan County, Utah.
2. A group of suburbs in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
3. A rural town in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia.
4. A town in Southland, New Zealand, the southernmost in the South Island, and seaport for the Southland region.

   Former name: Campbelltown

5. A surname.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French bluff, from English bluff. Compare German verblüffen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blœf/, /blaf/, (rare) /blʊf/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Noun

Bluff m (strong, genitive Bluffs, plural Bluffs)

1. bluff

Declension

Declension of Bluff [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Bluff	die	Bluffs
genitive	eines	des	Bluffs	der	Bluffs
dative	einem	dem	Bluff	den	Bluffs
accusative	einen	den	Bluff	die	Bluffs

Related terms

• bluffen

Further reading

• “Bluff” in Duden online