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bumf

[ buhmf ]

noun

British.
  1. Slang. toilet paper.
  2. memoranda, official notices, or the like.


bumf

/ ²úÊŒ³¾´Ú /

noun

  1. informal.
    superfluous documents, forms, publicity material, etc
  2. slang.
    toilet paper
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bumf1

1885–90; short for bumfodder. See bum 2, fodder ( def )
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bumf1

C19: short for earlier bumfodder ; see bum 1
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The company boasts having “qualified doctors and nurses†among its healthcare professionals and lists lots of scientific-sounding bumf.

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It's a cardboard box filled, not with marketing bumf, but with truly useful things for the baby's first few weeks.

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Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams criticised the programme document as "pages and pages of self-congratulatory bumf with little meaning or use to assembly members or the people of Wales".

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"On the island in the middle of the pool a single seedling grows," the garden's designer Jo Thompson explains in the bumf.

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The marketing bumf blinds you with a pseudo-science of shock absorption.

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