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Määritelmät
Erisnimi
- A common surname from Irish, the anglicized form of
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A census-designated place, the county seat of Owyhee County, Idaho.
- A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Missouri.
- A town, the county seat of Cherokee County, North Carolina.
- A city in Collin County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
- A town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina.
Substantiivi
- (slang) Ellipsis of Murphy game (“type of confidence trick”).
Verbi
- (transitive, slang) To swindle by means of the Murphy game confidence trick.
Esimerkit
- 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.
- 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.