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Murphy

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  • Regno Unito//ˈmɜːfi//
  • Stati Uniti//ˈmɜɹfi//

A common surname from Irish, the anglicized form of Irish Ó Murchadha

nome proprio

  1. 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. 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. 3

    A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place, the county seat of Owyhee County, Idaho.

  4. 4

    A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Missouri.

  5. 5

    A number of places in the United States: A town, the county seat of Cherokee County, North Carolina.

  6. 6

    A number of places in the United States: A city in Collin County, Texas.

  7. 7

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia.

  8. 8

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.

  9. 9

    A town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina.

Etimologia

From Irish Ó Murchadha (“descendant of Murrough”), Mac Murchaidh (“Son of Murrough”), etc. See Muircath.

sostantivo

  1. 1

    Variante di Murphy gamegergoEllipsis of Murphy game (“type of confidence trick”).

verbo

  1. 1

    gergoTo swindle by means of the Murphy game confidence trick.

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