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Apr 1, 2011 This week's theme Words for body parts used figuratively This week's words accolade elbow grease pugnacious dauphin bumf This week's comments AWADmail 457 Next week's theme Words for body parts used figuratively Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg bumf PRONUNCIATION: (bumf) MEANING: noun: Unwanted or uninteresting printed matter such as governmental forms, legal documents, junk mail, promotional pamphlets, etc. ETYMOLOGY: Short for bum fodder, slang for toilet paper. Earliest documented use: 1889. USAGE: "A mortgage loan can generate 200 pages of bumf, most of it so boring and repetitious that no one has the energy or the time to read it all." John Gilmour; Lenders Use The Hoover Principle; The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia); Jan 20, 2001. Explore "bumf" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008)

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