英语词汇bluff的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bluff. Mathew’s A Dictionary of Americanisms records bluff, origin unknown, as the term for a riverbank as early as 1687, referring to a “Bluffe” in South Carolina. According to Stuart Berg Flexner, in I Hear America Talking (1976), this is a histori- cal curiosity, the very first of what would be a long list of Amer- icanisms that the British termed “barbarous.” In poker to bluff is to deceive an opponent about the strength of one’s hand by betting heavily on it. This bluff probably derives from the Ger- man bluffen, “to frighten by menacing conduct.” Early names for poker, recorded in 1838, were bluff and brag. From poker also comes the expression to call one’s bluff.

词汇	bluff
词源	bluff. Mathew’s A Dictionary of Americanisms records bluff, origin unknown, as the term for a riverbank as early as 1687, referring to a “Bluffe” in South Carolina. According to Stuart Berg Flexner, in I Hear America Talking (1976), this is a histori- cal curiosity, the very first of what would be a long list of Amer- icanisms that the British termed “barbarous.” In poker to bluff is to deceive an opponent about the strength of one’s hand by betting heavily on it. This bluff probably derives from the Ger- man bluffen, “to frighten by menacing conduct.” Early names for poker, recorded in 1838, were bluff and brag. From poker also comes the expression to call one’s bluff.
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