| 释义 |
bumf slang.|bʌmf|
Also bumph.
[Short for bum-fodder (see bum n.1 4).]
Toilet-paper; hence, paper (esp. with contemptuous implication), documents collectively. Also attrib.
1889Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang, Bumf (schoolboys), paper... A bumf-hunt is a paper-chase. 1912V. Woolf Let. 16 Nov. in Woolf & Strachey Lett. (1956) 46 Is this letter written upon Bumf? It looks like it. 1930Wyndham Lewis Apes of God (1932) v. 161 Low-lid fodder or high-brow bumph! 1930E. Raymond Jesting Army i. vi. 90 The Brigadier pushed back the mess accounts to me and said, ‘You'll keep all that bumf till next time, won't you, padre?’ 1938E. Waugh Scoop ii. iv. 211, I shall get a daily pile of bumf from the Ministry of Mines. 1957M. K. Joseph I'll soldier no More (1958) 21 Matthews is bringing the bumf... He says be sure and type it on Army Form A2. |