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Sponger following papers
Answer for the clue "Sponger following papers ", 4 letters:
bumf
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Word definitions for bumf in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"papers, paperwork," 1889, British schoolboy slang, originally "toilet-paper," from bum-fodder .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. toilet paper (often used for printed matter that might as well be used as toilet paper) [syn: bumph ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A detective chief super should immerse himself in bumf until the last trump sounds and like it. ▪ He read all the latest intelligence bumf that had come in on the Bombay. ▪ When the registration forms came through, she apparently ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context British obsolete English) toilet paper. 2 Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material etc.
Usage examples of bumf.
He knew that eventually all that bumf would have to be divided logically and neatly into separate file folders.
Once the machine had okayed my number I spent a couple of hours sitting there, rolling around on one of those uncomfortable little typist chairs, calling up answers on the display screen and printing out yards of pale-green security bumf for Dicky.
They were mainly a boring lot: all the bumf about the train trip, a few newspaper pages about the races, then a newspaper cutting from a Cambridge local paper about the building of a new library in one of the colleges, thanks to the generosity of Canadian philanthropist Mercer P.