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Entries releated to BLUFF

 

BLUFF		Fierce, surly. He looked as bluff as bull beef.
BLUFFER		An inn-keeper.
BULL		A blunder; from one Obadiah Bull, a blundering lawyer of London, who lived in the reign of Henery VII. by a bull is now always meant a blunder made by an Irishman. A bull was also the name of false hair formerly much worn by women. To look like bull beef, or as bluff as bull beef; to look fierce or surly. Town bull, a great whore-master.
QUEER BLUFFER		The master of a public-house the resort of rogues and sharpers, a cut-throat inn or alehouse keeper.
RUM BLUFFER		A jolly host.