Where does “bluffer” come from?

bluffer (French) comes from English bluff, from Dutch bluffen, from Middle Dutch bluffen — to make something swell; to bluff.

bluffer (French): to bluff

Definitions

  1. to bluff

Ancestry of “bluffer”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbluffAn act of bluffing; a false expression of the...
2Dutchbluffento bluff
3Middle Dutchbluffento make something swell; to bluff

Words derived from “bluffer”

Every word from Middle Dutch bluffen →Every word from Dutch bluffen →Every word from English bluff →
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