bluff out

English

WOTD – 21 July 2018

bluff out (third-person singular simple present bluffs out, present participle bluffing out, simple past and past participle bluffed out)

(transitive) To deceive (someone) in order to convince them to give up.
- 1922 November 25, A[rthur] M[urray] Chisholm, “A Thousand a Plate”, in Western Story Magazine, volume XXX, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Street & Smith Corporation, OCLC 11910542, chapter II, page 91, column 2:
  The older man eyed him for a moment balefully. "I'm goin' to set 'em again," he replied, "and don't you touch 'em. I'm goin' to trap where I durn please. There's two of you, but you don't bluff me out, not any."

to deceive in order to convince someone to give up

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