Acronym	Definition
BUMPH	Bureaucratic Unsolicited Mountainous Paper Heap
BUMPH	Brakes Undercarriage Mixture Propellor Hatches (aerospace, pre-landing checks)

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. We'll probably never know who Skeetchy and Bumph were either!

Ironically, the advertising bumph boasts of "free customer service to suit you answered by a person, not a machine".

It is really no coincidence that the question, "Did you score?" is equally as relevant in the locker room as in most wineries' promotional bumph.

Of wine critics and eno-porn

'The pre-course bumph is all about psychology, fitness and man-management.

Ardley going by the book at Bluebirds

The second list contains 90 words of five or more letters: beefy, befitted, beige, bemixed, Bette, betted, bigeye, bitty, boyhood, bugeye, bugeyed, bumph, bumpy, butty, chebec, checked, chick, chipmuck, chuck, chucky, chymic, cubic, Debye, demurrer, ditty, dogtooth, dumky, dumpy, dunning, embed, emitted, emyde, ephebi, epithet, eutectic, exhume, exhumed, exude, ferrer, fetted, feued, fixup, fritterer, fumette, funning, gimpy, gutty, hedge, hempie, Hettie, hexed, hiccup, hotfoot, humid, humpy, impede, imphee, intendment, kedge, keyed, kitty, merrier, misguesses, mixup, mucic, murderer, ninny, outfoot, Panamanian, pellmell, Pennine, petite, petted, pigmy, pudgy, punning, puttee, putty, skepsises, speisses, successes, teeth, tempted, tight, tufty, tutee, unkenned, unpenned, uptight, yeuked

Counting with your fingers

For that we move to Peter Keleghan, Mercer's Made in Canada co-star (and it is a pleasure to be able to write "co-star" and know it's not publicity bio bumph).

Rick Mercers's Monday report

There is a lot of policy, theory, and "bumph" but no action to speak of.

Readers Write

Discounting high-flown bumph, what happened was that a group of powerful and intelligent people recognised a unique situation, raised some cash, and created The Emergency Rescue Committee.

Exiles and Emigres: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler

A plain answer is required please, not a load of political bumph and side stepping.

iPads, speed cameras, cuts, and those PCCs

Great Exploitations has a melodic crunch from Scott Hetherington (who the bumph says can run the 100m in less than 11 seconds) singing "stand up for mercy".

Soundcheck

Mrs M Tucker Llanedeyrn, Cardiff | My Ode to Mumph: To our Echo cartoonist Mumph You've enthralled us with your latest "bumph" I am sure with Cwm Offit You'll make a profit And realise your well-earned triumph I honestly don't know when You became so inspired by Gren Who you knew we would miss So you came up with this (Cwm Offit) With your ever-so-magical pen.

Inshort

The advertising bumph for Celtic's curtain raiser to the season goes on to mention the match's value with regard to preparations for the Champions League qualifiers.

GETTING STUCK RIGHT INTER THEM; Lenny timing is bad for Gers

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