"bumf" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
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      "word": "spam"
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      "alt": "UCE",
      "word": "unsolicited commercial email"
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          "ref": "2006: Quest, Richard, A Sour Taste in the Mouth, CNN.com, October 28, 2006",
          "text": "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."
        },
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          "ref": "2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:",
          "text": "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%.",
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          "standardize",
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          "sales",
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          "marketing",
          "marketing"
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          "print",
          "print"
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        "(derogatory) Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc."
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          "sense": "useless documents",
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          "word": "paperasse"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "useless documents",
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          "word": "Papierkram"
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        "Toilet paper."
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bumph"
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      "word": "bumpfh"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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        },
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          "text": "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%.",
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      ],
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    {
      "word": "bumph"
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      "word": "bumpfh"
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      "word": "bumpf"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "useless documents",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "lejstra"
    },
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "useless documents",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "paperasse"
    },
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      "sense": "useless documents",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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  "word": "bumf"
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