Murphy

Mur·phy  (mûrf)

n. pl. Mur·phies Slang

1. A Murphy game.

2. or murphy A potato.

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[From Murphy, a common Irish name.]

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Murphy, William Parry 1892-1987.

American physician. He shared a 1934 Nobel Prize for discovering that a diet of liver relieves anemia.

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murphy [ˈmɜːfɪ]

n pl -phies

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a dialect or informal word for potato

[from the common Irish surname Murphy]

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Murphy [ˈmɜːfɪ]

n

1. (Biographies / Murphy, Alex (1939 M, British, SPORT AND GAMES: rugby league player, SPORT AND GAMES: rugby league coach) Alex. born 1939, British rugby league player and coach

2. (Biographies / Murphy, Eddie (1951 M, US, FILMS AND TV: actor, THEATRE: comedian) Eddie, full name Edward Regan Murphy. born 1951, US film actor and comedian. His films include 48 Hours (1982), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Coming to America (1988), and Dr Dolittle (1998)

3. (Biographies / Murphy, William Parry (1892-1987) M, US, MEDICINE: physician) William Parry. 1892-1987, US physician: with G. R. Minot, he discovered the liver treatment for anaemia and they shared, with G. H. Whipple, the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1934

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

murphy - an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland Irish potato, potato, spud, tater, white potato starches - foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread) solanaceous vegetable - any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon root vegetable - any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers baked potato - potato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven chips, french fries, french-fried potatoes, fries - strips of potato fried in deep fat home fries, home-fried potatoes - sliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp jacket - the outer skin of a potato mashed potato - potato that has been peeled and boiled and then mashed Uruguay potato - similar to the common potato Solanum tuberosum, white potato, white potato vine, potato - annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous

Translations

Murphy [ˈmɜːfɪ] N Murphy's law → ley f de la indefectible mala voluntad de los objetos inanimados