bumf

American

[buhmf] / bʌmf /

noun

British.

Slang. toilet paper.
memoranda, official notices, or the like.

bumf British

/ bʌmf /

noun

informal superfluous documents, forms, publicity material, etc
slang toilet paper

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Etymology

Origin of bumf

1885–90; short for bumfodder. See bum ², fodder ( def. )

Example Sentences

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The company boasts having “qualified doctors and nurses” among its healthcare professionals and lists lots of scientific-sounding bumf.

From The Guardian

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

From BBC

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".

From BBC

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

From BBC

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

From The Guardian

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