murphy

Examples

• All

• For lunch, I baked some delicious murphy wedges with herbs.

• The farmer harvested a large crop of murphys this season.

• Father patrick "satan" murphy is alive, grace.

  From Eva, with Love (2014)

• The murrah building and father patrick "satan" murphy.

  From Eva, with Love (2014)

• Say I ditched art therapy, which I won't, but father patrick "satan" murphy and the bombing of the murrah building might come up.

  From Eva, with Love (2014)

Synonyms

P

potato

vsmurphy

501 1.0

A starchy vegetable that people eat, often boiled or mashed

is a regional dialect word used in parts of Ireland and Britain

T

tater

vsmurphy

• Informal

34 8.4

A potato that people cook and eat

is a local dialect term used specifically in some areas

S

spud

vsmurphy

• Informal

7 3.0

A potato often eaten cooked or fried

is regional and tied to local dialect rather than broad informal use

W

white potato

vsmurphy

1 1.0

A common root vegetable with pale skin and white flesh used for cooking

is a regional dialect label that does not name a particular variety

I

Irish potato

vsmurphy

1 1.0

A common white potato grown and eaten in Ireland and other countries

is a regional speech form, not a reference to a specific variety

Idioms

I

in the arms of Murphy

• Informal

9.9

A time when many things go wrong because of bad luck

Compounds

M

Murphy bed

• US

1 4.8

A bed that folds into a wall or cabinet to save space

Surface Forms

Etymology