bumf
/bʌmf
/(also bumph)
noun [mass noun] British informal
1Useless or tedious printed material: most of his mail was just bumf, bills, and Christmas cards...
- Now all we have to do a sort out all the junk mail and usual bumph that litters the hall on these occasions.
- Total sales, according to his publicity bumph, top 43 million across 150 countries.
- I groaned even more when I read the publicity bumf before the screening.
1.1 dated Toilet paper: I’ve got a bit of bumf in case of air raids...
- Having adopted the drape-against-wall style for my bumf-hanging activities, I find that it allows one to tear the paper off one-handedly and very neatly.
Origin
Late 19th century: abbreviation of slang bum-fodder, in the same sense.
Rhymes
- intellectual property
- intelligence
- intelligence agency
- intelligence agent
- intelligence assessment
- intelligence center
- intelligence centre
- Intelligence Corps
- intelligenced
- intelligence department
- intelligence office
- intelligence quotient
- intelligencer
- intelligence service
- intelligence test
- intelligence tester
- intelligence testing
- intelligencing
- intelligent
- intelligent building
- intelligent contraband
- intelligent design
- intelligential
- intelligently
- intelligentsia