bumf
/bʌmf/
bumf noun: useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc.
Noun
bumf (uncountable)
- Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc.
- And as for the limited warnings on documents and signs – we are so used to reading this bumf we fail to realise when they mean business.2006: Quest, Richard, A Sour Taste in the Mouth, CNN.com, October 28, 2006
- In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%....2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
- Toilet paper.
bumf meaning in Tamil
bumf in Tamil
- தேவையிலா அச்சிட்ட தாள்
Examples of bumf in a sentence
- If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
- It would be just grand to visit a museum without having to fend off tendentious bumf about “power structures”.2025 June 7, Janan Ganesh, “William Buckley and the revolution that wasn’t”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial...
Forms of bumf
| alternative form | bumph |
|---|---|
| alternative form | bumpfh |
| alternative form | bumpf |
Origin of bumf
Clipping of bumfodder.
Words that rhyme with bumf
Questions about bumf
- What does bumf mean?
- Bumf means useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc.
- What is bumf in Tamil?
- Bumf in Tamil is தேவையிலா அச்சிட்ட தாள். See Bumf meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use bumf in a sentence?
- If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%.
- What part of speech is bumf?
- Bumf is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bumf?
- Bumf is pronounced /bʌmf/ (UK).
Words near bumf in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bumf (page history and authors); bumf (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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