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   What is bumf 1889 slang?

   • bumf1889– slang(originally in British public schools). Paper (of any kind). Now rare. special paper1960– (Chiefly in the United Kingdom) an examination taken in addition to the advanced level of the General Certificate of Education, formerly known as… View in Historical Thesaurus 2. 1912– Toilet paper. Now somewhat archaic. 1912

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   How many times does bumf occur?

   • bumftypically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English. bumfis in frequency band 2, which contains words occurring between 0.001 and 0.01 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.

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   What does bum fodder mean?

   • 1. bum fodder1650– Toilet paper. Also occasionally: a piece of this. Cf. bumf, n. 2. arsewipe1677– Anything used to wipe oneself clean after defecation; (in later use chiefly) spec.toilet paper, or other paper used for this purpose. Cf. asswipe, n.… toilet paper1877–

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   Does goodness know what use this bumf will be put?

   • Goodness knows to what use this bumf will be put—certainly not for the good or the customers of the business, or for the good of the country. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

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   What do parliamentary agents say about 'bumf'?

   • The parliamentary agents, who have been able to send us fairly uninformative bumf, have not put forward one good thing to say about this chap or his company. He referred to my obsession for "bumf". Goodness knows to what use this bumf will be put—certainly not for the good or the customers of the business, or for the good of the country.

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   When was bumfis first used?

   • The earliest known use of the noun bumfis in the 1880s. OED's earliest evidence for bumfis from 1889, in a dictionary by A. Barrère and C. G. Leland. bumfis formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons:bum foddern. See etymology Nearby entries bum cheek, n.c1890– bum chum, n.1972– bum cleavage, n.1992– bum-clock, n.1786–

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   printed information, such as an advertisement or official document, that is usually unwanted and not interesting: I got a load of bumf from my bank in the post today. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Books: kinds of books. abridgment.

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   Bumf consists of documents containing information which you may not need or find interesting. [ British , informal ] These days, we are bombarded with endless junk mail, fliers, and general bumf.

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   Definitions of bumf. noun. reading materials (documents, written information) that you must read and deal with but that you think are extremely boring. synonyms: bumph. see more.

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