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Definition of Bumph
1. Noun. Reading materials (documents, written information) that you must read and deal with but that you think are extremely boring.
Generic synonyms: Reading, Reading Material
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Definition of Bumph
1. bumf [n -S] - See also: bumf
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bumph
Literary usage of Bumph
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wit and Wisdom: A Public Affairs Miscellany by Colin Bingham (1982)
"bumph breeds bumph. SIR PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER When Sir Philip [later Lord Swinton]
became Colonial Secretary in the British National Government of 1931-35 ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1844)
"Mrs. SMITH is certainly Mr. SMITH'S master ; and poor bumph ! he admits it, for
he calls her ' my dear' twenty limes a-day. ..."
3. The Philippine Journal of Science by Institute of Science and Technology (Philippines) (1907)
"bumph. citât, excl. Nut tessellated, often minutely hairy. Hook. f. Fl. Brit.
Ind. 6: 686; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 36 (1003) 207. ..."
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