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bluffly

bluffly adverb: in a bluff manner.

Adverb

bluffly (comparative more bluffly, superlative most bluffly)

  1. In a bluff manner
    • "Sarch away, squire," said Shackle bluffly, as he placed the mugs on the floor and turned the wooden spigots.2016, George Manville Fenn ·, Cutlass and Cudgel, page 78

Forms of bluffly

comparativemore bluffly
superlativemost bluffly

Origin of bluffly

From bluff + -ly.

Questions about bluffly

What does bluffly mean?
Bluffly means in a bluff manner.
What part of speech is bluffly?
Bluffly is an adverb.

Words near bluffly in the dictionary

  1. bluffing
  2. bluffing out
  3. bluffingly
  4. bluffings
  5. blufflike
  6. bluffly
  7. bluffness
  8. bluffs
  9. bluffs out
  10. Bluffton
  11. blufftop

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