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furphy Austral. slang.|ˈfɜːfɪ|
[Associated with Furphy carts, water and sanitary carts used in the 1914–18 war, manufactured at a foundry established by the Furphy family at Shepparton, Vict.]
A false report or rumour; an absurd story. Also attrib.
1916Anzac Bk. 56/1 These furphies are the very devil. Ibid., Furphy was the name of the contractor which was written large upon the rubbish carts that he supplied to the Melbourne camps. The name was transferred to a certain class of news item, very common since the war, which flourished greatly upon all the beaches. 1916C. J. Dennis Moods of Ginger Mick 122 Soljerin's me game. That's no furphy. 1919W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 25 Furphy-king, a retailer of rumours. 1933Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Apr. 21 The persistent rumour that they were introduced to check ragwort is a furphy. 1942C. Barrett On Wallaby iv. 70 Tim broke the..news... It was no furphy this time. We really were going..to somewhere in Sinai. 1945L. Glassop We were Rats iii. xlv. 247 We did not believe it when they told us... ‘Mick,’ [Eddie] said earnestly, ‘it's a furphy. It's the same old furphy..an'..it's not funny any more.’ 1960‘J. Wyndham’ Trouble with Lichen xii. 153 The furphy round the House is that they believe in the thing so solidly that they've convinced their husbands. |