ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Bumfluff

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈbʌmflʌf/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Bumfluff is a noun meaning (Australia, British, New Zealand, derogatory) The first, sparse beard growth of an adolescent.

Meaning

(Australia, British, New Zealand, derogatory) The first, sparse beard growth of an adolescent.

Example Sentences

There was a basic core of twelve: hard, canny females, with a few young males coming into their strength, just beginning to grow manes: bumfluff lions.
In my peer group I looked the oldest because I had bum fluff. Who can forget bum fluff? Wispy growths of hair around your chin that you thought made you look like Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
He still had bumfluff on his cheeks, he was that young. About once a month he used to shave it off, and come skiting about it. I smiled at the memory of him all lathered up, grinning at me through the mirror as he went to work on the bumfluff.
There was no way I was twenty-one. I looked nineteen at a push. Maybe sixteen-and-a-half, which is what I was. Big though – not fat – but tall. No baby-face and no bum-fluff moustache. The fisher boys had their bum-fluff moustaches and they looked total pricks.

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