Bumf

Quick meaning: Bumf is a noun meaning (derogatory) Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc.

Meaning

(derogatory) Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc.

More Meanings

1. (British, Ireland, obsolete) Toilet paper.

Example Sentences

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.

I say all this as someone who wishes the right had won one or two more of its battles. It would be just grand to visit a museum without having to fend off tendentious bumf about “power structures”.

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%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.

Word Forms

• bumph
• bumpfh
• bumpf

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include paperhood, maculature, paperwork, fodder, paperweight, blank.

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