bumf
- n reading materials (documents, written information) that you must read and deal with but that you think are extremely boring
- Meanwhile, the British enact high military farce; the war has lost its point, and the rear echelon is a jungle of red tape and "bumf" in which the conniver, the spiv and the .
- Hand-to-hand scrapping is his ideal: "Everything else in war," he assures Guy, "is just bumf and telephones.