Murphy
name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Ellipsis of Murphy game (“type of confidence trick”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang
- 2 An Irish or white potato.
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- 3 an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland wordnet
- 1 To swindle by means of the Murphy game confidence trick. slang, transitive
- 1 A common surname from Irish, the anglicized form of Irish Ó Murchadha
"After a long talk between these two, and a little broken English from the Frenchmen, our visitors took leave; but Father Murphy had hardly gone a dozen rods when back he came, inquiring whether we were in want of anything."
- 2 A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
"Sonja made me promise I would go to college. She said she'd wanted her daughter, Murphy, to go. She'd named her baby Murphy because it could never be a stripper name. But her daughter had changed her name to London."
- 3 A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place, the county seat of Owyhee County, Idaho.
- 4 A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Missouri.
- 5 A number of places in the United States:; A town, the county seat of Cherokee County, North Carolina.
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- 6 A number of places in the United States:; A city in Collin County, Texas.
- 7 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia.
- 8 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
- 9 A town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina.
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More examples"Soon after graduating from trade school, Ray Murphy was taken on as a machinist at the local automobile plant."
Etymology
From Irish Ó Murchadha (“descendant of Murrough”), Mac Murchaidh (“Son of Murrough”), etc. See Muircath.
From the common Irish name Murphy. Compare Donovan (“a potato”).