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Määritelmät

Erisnimi

  1. A common surname from Irish, the anglicized form of
  2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
  3. A number of places in the United States:
  4. A census-designated place, the county seat of Owyhee County, Idaho.
  5. A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Missouri.
  6. A town, the county seat of Cherokee County, North Carolina.
  7. A city in Collin County, Texas.
  8. An unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia.
  9. An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
  10. A town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina.

Substantiivi

  1. (slang) Ellipsis of Murphy game (“type of confidence trick”).

Verbi

  1. (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.