bumf
MEANING:
noun: Unwanted or uninteresting printed matter such as governmental
forms, legal documents, junk mail, promotional pamphlets, etc.
ETYMOLOGY:
Short for bum fodder, slang for toilet paper. Earliest documented use:
1889.
USAGE:
"A mortgage loan can generate 200 pages of bumf, most of it so boring and
repetitious that no one has the energy or the time to read it all."
John
Gilmour; Lenders Use The Hoover Principle; The Sydney Morning Herald
(Australia); Jan 20, 2001.
cp in bc
(Bunf Columbia)
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