bumf — English Dictionary

Noun

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

   Usage

   • Derogatory
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   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.

   More examples (2)

   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%.

   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”.

2. Toilet paper.

   Usage

   • Ireland
   • UK usage
   • Obsolete
   • Uncountable

Noun

1. reading materials (documents, written information) that you must read and deal with but that you think are extremely boring

   Synonyms

   bumph

   Broader terms

   readingreading material