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Jun 26, 2003
This week's theme
Slang/informal terms

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muggle
gearhead
fress
vibe
bumf

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bumf

(vyb) Pronunciation

noun: Unwanted or uninteresting printed matter such as governmental forms, legal documents, junk mail, promotional pamphlets, etc.

[Short for bum fodder, slang for toilet paper. Earliest documented use: 1889.]

"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.

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