murphy (ˈmɜːfɪ) ![]() | |
| —n , pl -phies | |
| a dialect or informal word for potato | |
| [C19: from the common Irish surname Murphy] | |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Murphy Mur·phy (mûr'fē), William Parry. 1892-1987.
American physician. He shared a 1934 Nobel Prize for discovering that a diet of liver relieves anemia.
murphy definition[ˈmɚfi]
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