英语词汇call his bluff的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	call his bluff
词源	call his bluff. This widely used phrase certainly originated in American poker games of the early 19th century, bluffing being an integral part of poker, and to call meaning to match a bet. Some etymologists trace bluff itself back to the Low German bluffen, “to frighten by menacing conduct,” which became the Dutch buffen, “to make a trick at cards,” but bluff is first record- ed in an 1838 account of an American poker game.
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