The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #126382   Message #2813039
Posted By: Les from Hull
15-Jan-10 - 05:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: translations from the English
Subject: RE: BS: translations from the English
Flak is from the German abbreviation for Fliegerabwehrkanone = 'anti-aircraft gun' from the Great War onwards.

I understood bumf as 'bum fodder' as it is 'fodder bum' = for the bum. Did they really have toilet paper in 1650?