0 to deceive someone by making them think either that you are going to do something when you really have no intention of doing it, or that you have knowledge that you do not really have, or that you are someone else: --
1 an attempt to bluff: --
2 a cliff or very steep bank --
3 direct or too honest, often in a way that people find rude: --
4 to try to trick someone into believing something, esp. in order to get an advantage over that person: --
5 (used in many names of places) a cliff or steep slope, often above a river: --
Council Bluffs, Iowa
I am sure that no councillor who is, frankly, worth his salt would let himself be bluffed by his officials.
The dangerous thing for us to do in the cause of peace is to carry out a series of bluffs.
If one is wise, one's policy should be built on the assumption that those who are opposing one on any particular issue are not bluffing.
You chose to say that we were bluffing.
Apparently the union had advised its members that the management was bluffing.
We should not be bluffed by the fear that there will be a collapse in oil prices.
We know about the configuration of the mountains and the bluffs.
Then even if the people have the sense not to be bluffed, what happens?