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General Slang
bumf
· noun · military
Useless paperwork — admin you'll never read.
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Pointless paperwork. Forms, memos, circulars — the kind of admin that lands in your tray and goes straight in the bin. Universal military gripe.
“The CO's desk is buried under a foot of bumf from Brigade.”
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Originally, the propaganda leaflets the RAF dropped over enemy territory. Same logic — paper nobody asked for.
“Half the sortie was just dropping bumf over the Ruhr.”
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bumf In A Sentence
The CO's desk is buried under a foot of bumf from Brigade.
Half the sortie was just dropping bumf over the Ruhr.
Origin & Usage
Shortened from 'bum-fodder' — 19th-century British slang for toilet paper. Forces lifted it for the mountains of pointless memos and circulars they were handed. Originally it also meant the propaganda leaflets dropped on enemy lines.
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