Sunday, August 07, 2011

Word of the day: bumph

The word of the day is bumph:

Short for bum-fodder n.
slang. 
Toilet-paper; hence, paper (esp. with contemptuous implication), documents collectively.  (OED)


"Coming clean would surely give us greater distance
than this king at the Globe, whose head seems cluttered with golden-age bumph,
whose suffering ends him agog at the stars."

 - Daljit Nagra, "A Black History of the English-Speaking Peoples", 25 July 2011 The New Yorker

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