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- noun reading materials (documents, written information) that you must read and deal with but that you think are extremely boring
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Examples
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(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."
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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.
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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.
Education letters 2011
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Promotional photos reshot in record time, marketing bumph rejigged using Microsoft Word's Cut and Find/Replace facility.
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How I do documentation: a column of bumph and a column of gold
How I do documentation: a column of bumph and a column of gold Mia 2008
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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.
Archive 2008-04-01 Mia 2008
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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 Mia 2008
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How I do documentation: a column of bumph and a column of gold
Archive 2008-04-01 Mia 2008
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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 Mia 2008
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How I do documentation: a column of bumph and a column of gold Mia 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word bumph
"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
June 3, 2008