a. [f. BLUFF sb.1 + -Y.]
1. Full of bluffs, precipitous.
1872. Blackie, Lays Highl., 7. Cliff, and bay, and bluffy foreland.
1882. Noah Brooks, in Century Mag., Sept., 707/2. The Penobscot winds around the bluffy headlands.
2. Rather bluff, inclining to bluffness.
1844. Tupper, Crock of G., xxii. 176. A fat, sturdy, bluffy old woman.
