bumf
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- noun
- /bʌmf/
- Slang
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papelería
- You're Jute's bumf tutor, take him to the sweat room.
Examples
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She sorted through the bumf and found the important documents hidden among the flyers.
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Got the bumf, have you?
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Example: 'The hallway is littered with election bumf that's come through the door.'
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Bumf: The key point is that it relates to an excess of paper, usually unwanted, though possibly with a grudging acceptance that it might be bureaucratically necessary.
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BrE bumf = a collective term for loose printed material/paperwork (forms, pamphlets, letters) that's deemed to be unnecessary.
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I received a lot of bumf from the bank, and it's all just information I don't need.
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The office was cluttered with bumf that no one bothered to read.
Synonyms
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Unimportant words in writing or speech
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A large amount of boring forms and documents you must fill for official work
Papers and documents you do not need and find boring to read
Paper documents that are not needed and waste time
Cheap, silly writing or shows that give little real information
Compounds
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Bumf comes from the old British slang bum-fodder, literally paper for the bum meaning 'bottom' or 'toilet paper'. So, calling official papers or long documents 'bumf' is a joking way to say the papers are useless or boring.