Bumf vs Buff - What's the difference?
bumf | buff |
(British, obsolete) Toilet paper.
Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material etc.
* 2006: Quest, Richard, A Sour Taste in the Mouth , CNN.com, October 28, 2006
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Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
* Shakespeare
A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
A brownish yellow colour.
* Dryden
A military coat made of buff leather.
(informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject; an enthusiast.
(gaming) An effect that temporally makes a gaming character stronger.
(rail transport) Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
The bare skin.
* Wright
The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
A substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
* Police said the 20 ton hydraulic jack was used to press mixtures of cocaine and "buff" into bricks. (CBC)
Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
(bodybuilding): Unusually muscular. (also buffed'' or ''buffed out )
* 1994 , Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture , page 155:
(slang) attractive.
To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
(gaming) To make a character stronger.
(obsolete) A buffet; a blow.
* Spenser
As nouns the difference between bumf and buff
is that bumf is toilet paper while buff is undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.As an adjective buff is
of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.As a verb buff is
to polish and make shiny by rubbing.As an acronym BUFF is
big Ugly Fat Fellow (or Fucker); US Airforce nickname for the B-52 bomber.bumf
English
Noun
(-)- 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.
citation, passage=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%.}}
Alternative forms
* bumph * bumpfh * bumpfSee also
* spam * Unsolicited commercial email (UCE) * junk mailbuff
English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)- a suit of buff
- a visage rough, deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff
- (Shakespeare)
- He’s a history buff .
- to strip to the buff
- To be in buff is equivalent to being naked.
Derived terms
* in the buffAntonyms
* (video games) debuff * (video games) nerfAdjective
(en-adj)- The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl.
- The appearance of logic often derives from faulty syllogisms such as Sgt. Koon's conclusion that King was an ex-con because he was "buffed out " (heavily muscled). The thinking is: "ex-cons are often buffed out; this man is buffed out; therefore, this man is an ex-con."
Derived terms
* buff-tip moth * bufflyVerb
(en verb)- The enchanter buffed the paladin to prepare him to fight the dragon.
Derived terms
* buff out * buff up * buff wheelSynonyms
* (to make smooth and shiny by rubbing) wax, shine, polish, furbish, burnishAntonyms
* (video games) debuff * (video games) nerfSee also
*Etymology 2
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent / That made him reel.