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1. Spurious data held in a database through error, incompetence, poor design, poor maintenance, age, misplaced user priorities, but usually due to a subtle confluence of all of these factors.

2. Data that will never, ever be used and is recorded merely because it can be, or must be due to regulation.

3. The lowest qualitative measure in the epistemological hierarchy of wisdom, knowledge, information, data, gumpf.
Wikipeadia contains a lot of gumpf.

I used to read my horoscope in the paper but now I realise they're just gumpf.

Many government computer systems are regulated to store only gumpf.
gumpf by Whimsey January 14, 2008
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1. noun. formal copy repeated in correspondence or regular issues of a book or magazine.
When you're sending that eviction notice, just put all the formal gumpf in at the top and then tell them they're lazy pigs and we have a sty that might suit them better.

Where do I find that imprint gumpf on the server? I need to set this book yesterday.
gumpf by Ryan Paine January 19, 2008
The random junk that accumilates in and around a home that has children living in it.
i.e To one or more children, 'I've just spent an hour clearing the living room of your gumpf'
gumpf by Sharon2205 September 22, 2007
Extremely stupid person, complete idiocy, human that lacks the ability to use their mind. Also can be comparable to being as dumb as an ape.
Wow he's so gumpf he can't ever comprehend first grade material.
Gumpf by hutzal September 19, 2016

natty gumpf 

Damn! My girl throws the natty gumpf at me!
natty gumpf by Valiant219 August 22, 2017
When you meet up with someone you met online and they have no teeth
Finally met up in real life with Damon who I met online and he forgot to mention he had no teeth. I was gumfished.
Gumfished by CrunchyCrew February 24, 2022