bumf

Etymology

Clipping of bumfodder.

noun

1. (derogatory) Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc.
   And as for the limited warnings on documents and signs – we are so used to reading this bumf we fail to realise when they mean business. 2006: Quest, Richard, A Sour Taste in the Mouth, CNN.com, October 28, 2006
   In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. 2013-05-25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
2. (Britain, obsolete) Toilet paper.