Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of bumf.
WordNet 3.0
- n. reading materials (documents, written information) that you must read and deal with but that you think are extremely boring
Examples
“(OED) says that bumf, also spelled bumph, is short for bum-fodder, and defines it as "toilet-paper; hence, paper (esp. with contemptuous implication), documents collectively.”
“The bumph enclosed with Blancmange's first album since 1985 flags up their influence on acts such as La Roux, but on Blanc Burn the duo themselves have left most of their 80s sound in the 80s.”
“Promotional photos reshot in record time, marketing bumph rejigged using Microsoft Word's Cut and Find/Replace facility.”
“As a very part-time tutor for the Workers Educational Association WEA, I was forced to join an organisation that has nothing to offer me; I ignore the endless bumph that is sent.”
“This first column is all the bumph described above - the stuff I'd need if I wanted to retrace my steps or remind myself why I ended up doing things a certain way.”
How I do documentation: a column of bumph and a column of gold
“Open Objects: How I do documentation: a column of bumph and a column of gold skip to main | skip to sidebar”
How I do documentation: a column of bumph and a column of gold
“And if I ever want to write up the whole project, I've got a record of the whole process in the column of bumph.”
“How I do documentation: a column of bumph and a column of gold”
“Feb. 9: … Running out of bumph toilet paper and there are no newspapers.”
“The citizens of most of the rest of the world never swallowed Washington's claptrap and bumph about Iraq -- the weapons, building democracy, etc.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bumph’.
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bum phrases/words
how bum is used
bumbag, bum-barrel, bum-beating, bum-blade, bum-boy, bum-brusher, bum cleavage, bum-creeper, bum-dagger, bum-delighting, bum-fluff, bum-fodder and 104 more...
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Agatha Christie
Charming and intriguing words one finds in AG's murder mysteries. Also see Murdered, you say?
ambassadress, aperitif, baluster, cause célèbre, crime passionnel, embankment, embonpoint, galantine, mauvais sujet, mephistophelean, mountebank, purloin and 67 more...
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Reading Materials
Names of printed materials meant to be read - for worship, pleasure, information, recitation; out of curiosity, or, in the case of adverts, to get our attention and sway our spending choices.
lectionary, epistolary, reading-book, novel, Bildungsroman, short story, billboard, advertisement, Sunday comics, obituaries, book of hours, primer and 84 more...
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Carlos' Words
monstropolous, absquatulate
pinguid, triffid, calque, refulgent, monstropolous, Seanchaí, clinquant, Chryselephantine ..., peavey, milium, swage, Burtillon, Burtil... and 214 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Look Busy
Get to work!
ergophobia, elucubrate, karoshi, dogsbody, forswonk, moil, deft, assiduous, panurgic, paperasserie, bumf, blackleg and 91 more...
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pamelad's Words
lugubrious, antediluvian, decrepitude, anomaly, regurgitate, apoplexy, prolix, incapacitate, discontinuity, bellicose, inclement, frangible and 158 more...
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oh those crazy brits
hoarding, wrong-foot, bumf, bumph, tosh, whinge, chuffed, gobsmacked, gob, chuff, binman, waffle and 5 more...
Tweets
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knitandpurl "Now in the little lounge what is left is what remains when there's nothing left: flies, for instance, or advertising bumph slipped under the door by students, proclaiming the benefits of a new toothpaste or offering twenty-five centimes' reduction to every buyer of three packets of washing powder, or old issues of Le Jouet Français, the review he took all his life and to which his subscription didn't run out until a few months after his death, or those things without meaning that lie around on floors and in cupboard corners, you never know how they got there nor why they stayed: three faded flowers of the field; bendy sticks with probably calcinated threads etiolating at each end, an empty Coke bottle, a cake box, opened, still keeping its false raffia string and its legend "Aux Délices de Louis XV, Pastrycooks and Candymakers since 1742" forming a fine oval shape surrounded by a garland and flanked by four puffy-cheeked putti, or behind the door to the landing a kind of cast-iron coatstand, with a mirror cracked roughly Y-shaped into three unequal surface portions, and in the edge of which there is still stuck a postcard showing an incontrovertibly Japanese woman athlete holding a flaming torch at arm's length."
-- Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos, p 27 Jun 3, 2008