British English Informal. Useless or tedious printed material, such as leaflets or official documents, that is usually unwanted and not interesting: I need to clear my desk of all the bumph
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Historical slang. A schoolboys' and soldiers' abbreviation of bum-fodder. Mid 19th Century. (Also bumf.)
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Bumm-Fodder; or, Waste-Paper proper to wipe the nation's rump with, or your own.
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