Crossword clues for bumf
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"papers, paperwork," 1889, British schoolboy slang, originally "toilet-paper," from bum-fodder.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context British obsolete English) toilet paper. 2 Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material etc.
WordNet
n. toilet paper (often used for printed matter that might as well be used as toilet paper) [syn: bumph]
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.