murphy — ozdic

Collocations

4

VERB + MURPHY

leave, named, trade, wanted

I wanted Murphy to help me move the boxes, but he never showed up that day.

MURPHY + NOUN

bed, owner, she'd

The murphy bed folded up neatly into the wall when we weren't sleeping.

PREP.

on

Murphy's law strikes again whenever anything can go wrong on a project.

ADV.

hardly

I hardly knew Murphy when he moved in next door last spring.

Definitions

name

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.

A Granite Bay home previously owned by actor and comedian Eddie Murphy is back on the market for $12 million.

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:

4

A number of places in the United States:

5

A number of places in the United States:

noun

1

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

verb

1

To swindle by means of the Murphy game confidence trick.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — an edible tuber native to South America

potato
spud
tater

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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01

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 wer

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02

A Granite Bay home previously owned by actor and comedian Eddie Murphy is back on the market for $12 million.

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03

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

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04

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05

To the chimney nook, / Having found admittance, / There I watch a pup / Playing with two kittens / (Playing round the fire, / Which of blazing turf is, / Roaring to the pot / Which bubbles with the mu

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06

Soon after graduating from trade school, Ray Murphy was taken on as a machinist at the local automobile plant.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, murphy is marked as slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.