Murphyn.¹

Brit.

/ˈməːfi/, U.S.

/ˈmərfi/

Forms: 1700s–1800s Murfy, 1800s– Murphy.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item; apparently modelled on a proper name. Etymon: Morpheus n.

Etymology: Alteration of Morpheus n., apparently after the surname Murphy (and identified as such in later use).

colloquial. Now rare.

= Morpheus n. Frequently in in the arms of Murphy: asleep.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > god of dreams

Morpheusa1393

Murphy1750

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > potato

potato root1583

potato1597

Irish potato1664

pratie1749

earth apple1750

Murphy1750

tater1759

tatie1788

tattiec1800

pomme de terrec1810

potato tuber1844

spud1845

nav1893

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato

potato root1583

pratie1749

Murphy1750

tater1759

pomme de terre1776

Irish apricot1785

tatie1788

tattiec1800

spud1845

aloo1916

1750 T. Smollett Roderick Random (ed. 3) I. xiv. 110 When Murfy sends his puppies to the heys of slipping mortals.

1823 M. Wilmot Let. 3 Sept. (1935) 194 I am cheating Murphy, who is making me yawn till my jaws are almost dislocated.

1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook I. xi. 135 We dropt into the arms of Murfy.

1890 W. G. Stables For England, Home, & Beauty xiii. 194 It's the nightmare I'll be having..as soon as I'm in the arms av Murphy.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 614 Wrapped in the arms of Murphy, as the adage has it, dreaming of fresh fields and pastures new.

1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 79/1 Murphy's (Morpheus) arms, sleeping time, lights out (prison).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Murphyn.²

Brit.

/ˈməːfi/, U.S.

/ˈmərfi/

Forms: 1800s– murfey (English regional (south-west midlands), in sense 1), 1800s– murphey (in sense 1), 1800s– Murphy, 1800s– murphy.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Murphy.

Etymology: < the widespread Irish surname Murphy.

slang.

1. A potato.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > potato > types of

baker1651

Irish potato1664

sprout1771

London lady1780

ox-noble1794

pink-eye1795

kidney1796

Suriname1796

round1800

yam potato1801

bluenose1803

yam1805

bead-potato1808

Murphy1811

lumper1840

blue1845

salmon1845

merino1846

regent1846

pink1850

redskin potato1851

fluke1868

snowflake1882

magnum1889

ware1894

snowdrop1900

King Edward1902

Majestic1917

red1926

fingerling1930

Pentland1959

chipper1961

Maris Peer1963

Maris Piper1963

1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Murphies, potatoes.

1812 Murphy Delany's Feast 6 Next to the table came a Sheep's head hot, It's [sic] mouth with a murphy cramm'd, sir.

1827 P. Egan Anecd. Turf 151 Mathews relished the Irish stews and murpheys with greater goût.

1847 H. Melville Omoo lix. 227 The rich, tawny soil seemed specially adapted to the crop; the great yellow murphies rolling out of the hills like eggs from a nest.

1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. vi. 127 She bakes such stunning murphies.

1891 J. F. Soop Bobbins the Waif i. 9 If I could only have one good square sock at him with this here murphy!

1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 154 Murfeys, potatoes. SE Worc. and elsewhere.

1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Sept. 20/2 There was a leakage from a sack of murphies brought ashore at Whangara.

1975 Thames Star 18–21 Nov. 1/1 Mrs Ward's magnificent murphy is not however, destined for the cooking pot.

2. U.S. Short for Murphy game n. at Compounds. Esp. in to play the Murphy.

ΚΠ

1966 N.Y. Times 4 Sept. iv. 5 Everybody should have a car... How are you going to get it?.. You know, you can get it playing the Murphy.

1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 83 Murphy, a con game played on innocent (especially white) men who are expecting sex with a prostitute (usually black).

1976 in D. Wepman et al. Life 41 I'll play the Murphy to the point of death.

1990 S. Morgan Homeboy ii. 25 Passing back into the club, she palmed Joe a twenty, his cut of the Murphy.

Compounds

Murphy game n. [claimed by some sources to be either the name of a man who originated the trick, or the name of a fictitious woman used to lure the victim] U.S. a confidence trick in which the victim is duped, usually by an unfulfilled promise of money or sex.

ΚΠ

1957 Ebony July 55/1 Each year handkerchief trick, Murphy game, pigeon chop and other confidence operations, with aid of teen-age girls, fleece willing but unwitting persons out of some $20,000,000.

1965 Time 16 Apr. 16 ‘The Murphy game’ is underworld argot for a slick maneuver in which a victim puts his cash in an envelope and gives it to the con man, who makes a fast sleight-of-hand switch and hands back an identical envelope stuffed with newspaper strips.

Murphy man n. U.S. a man who practises the Murphy game; a confidence trickster.

ΚΠ

1972 J. Mills Rep. to Commissioner 55 We stop in a bar..and it's filled with pimps, Murphy men, guys like that.

1976 in D. Wepman et al. Life 80 By the sleight-of-hand of a Murphy man.

Murphy's countenance n. British (now historical) = Murphy's face n.

ΚΠ

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 544/2 Murphy's countenance, a pig's head.

Murphy's face n. British (now historical) a pig's head.

ΚΠ

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 544/2 Murphy's face, a pig's head.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Murphyn.³

Brit.

/ˈməːfi/, U.S.

/ˈmərfi/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Murphy.

Etymology: < the name of John Benjamin Murphy (1857–1916), U.S. surgeon.

Surgery.

1. Murphy's button n. (also Murphy button) a device consisting of two short telescopic metal tubes each with a button-like end, used to perform end-to-end anastomosis of the intestine. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other medical equipment > [noun] > other miscellaneous equipment

wresting thread1616

tractors1798

tetanomotor1860

examining table1877

wire instrumenta1884

wristband1884

nasal spray1888

mackintosh sheet1889

gas mask1892

bath-bed1894

inspissator1897

Murphy's button1899

trembling-chair1899

solenoid1901

sunray1921

oxygenator1928

white cane1930

white stick1930

microdrive1955

photocoagulator1965

bubble1966

stimoceiver1967

hospital gown1970

smart pill1988

1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons) 607 Anastomosis Buttons (Murphy's), circular, for intestinal approximation, etc.]

1899 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 Dec. 1730/1 Murphy's button, of course, may be employed.

1909 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 81 377 The cut ends of the intestine [were] united by a Murphy button.

1986 Surg., Gynecol. & Obstetr. 163 121 250 patients with cirrhosis and bleeding esophageal varices underwent portal disconnection of the esophagus using either Murphy's button (before 1974) or an esophageal device developed by one of the authors (after 1974).

1994 Surg. Endoscopy 8 1190 The biofragmentable anastomosis ring, a modern version of the Murphy Button.

2. Murphy's sign n. painful interruption of a patient's deep inspiration when a physician palpates the right hypochondrium, indicative of gall bladder disease.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [noun] > specific result of diagnostic test

pita1398

pitting1670

fremitus1879

Murphy's sign1908

past-pointing1916

1908 Practitioner Dec. 823 In these cases [of cholecystitis] a rigid rectus muscle on the right side, hyperalgesia of the skin over the gall-bladder region, and Murphy's sign are generally present.

1974 R. M. Kirk et al. Surgery vi. 99 If steady pressure is exerted under the right costal margin and the patient is then asked to breathe in, she feels pain and often gasps as the inflamed gallbladder meets the point of pressure. This is Murphy's sign.

1995 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 3) II. xiv. 2049/2 Right hypochondrial tenderness is present and is exacerbated by inspiration (Murphy's sign).

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Murphyn.⁴

Brit.

/ˈməːfi/, U.S.

/ˈmərfi/, Canadian English

/ˈmɜrfi/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Murphy.

Etymology: < the name of William Lawrence Murphy (1876–1959), U.S. manufacturer, who produced the original design.

North American.

attributive. Designating any of various types of beds that can be folded away, esp. into a wall cupboard. Frequently in Murphy bed.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > folding bed for camp or travelling > folding bed for house

turn-down bed1840

wall bed1913

Murphy bed1918

stretcher1943

1918 Hotel Monthly Feb. 3 (advt.) Mr. Statler four years ago used Murphy beds when he built his New Hotel Statler-Detroit.

1930 N.Y. Times 2 Mar. xiii. 10/2 (advt.) Apartments Unfurnished... 40s East—Most charming one-room apartment in town; restaurant, telephone service, Murphy beds: $78.50.

1974 Apartment Life May e2/2 The concealed wall bed, best known as a Murphy bed in the 1930s, is coming out of the woodwork again.

1995 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 7 May g2/2 A Murphy bed, which pulls down out of the wall, lets you get two uses out of a room.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Murphyv.

Brit.

/ˈməːfi/, U.S.

/ˈmərfi/

Forms: 1900s– Murphey, 1900s– Murpheyed (past participle), 1900s– Murphied (past participle), 1900s– Murphy, 1900s– Murphyed (past participle). Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Murphy n.²

Etymology: < Murphy n.² (see sense 2 at that entry).

U.S. slang.

transitive. To dupe, to swindle, esp. by means of the Murphy game. See Murphy n.² 2.

ΚΠ

1965 N.Y. Times 6 Apr. 1/3 Mayor Smitherman..and..a Selma lawyer..were ‘murphyed’ by the Negro confidence man at 2:30 a.m. today.

1972 J. Mills Rep. to Commissioner 52 I thought he was a complainant…some school kid who'd been Murpheyed.

1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Dec. a27 It [sc. the U.S. government] got Murphied into selling arms to the Khomeini regime–and its pockets picked by middlemen.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1750

n.²1811

n.³1899

n.⁴1918

v.1965

单词	murphy
释义	Murphyn.¹ Brit. /ˈməːfi/, U.S. /ˈmərfi/ Forms: 1700s–1800s Murfy, 1800s– Murphy. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item; apparently modelled on a proper name. Etymon: Morpheus n. Etymology: Alteration of Morpheus n., apparently after the surname Murphy (and identified as such in later use). colloquial. Now rare. = Morpheus n. Frequently in in the arms of Murphy: asleep. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > god of dreams Morpheusa1393 Murphy1750 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > potato potato root1583 potato1597 Irish potato1664 pratie1749 earth apple1750 Murphy1750 tater1759 tatie1788 tattiec1800 pomme de terrec1810 potato tuber1844 spud1845 nav1893 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato potato root1583 pratie1749 Murphy1750 tater1759 pomme de terre1776 Irish apricot1785 tatie1788 tattiec1800 spud1845 aloo1916 1750 T. Smollett Roderick Random (ed. 3) I. xiv. 110 When Murfy sends his puppies to the heys of slipping mortals. 1823 M. Wilmot Let. 3 Sept. (1935) 194 I am cheating Murphy, who is making me yawn till my jaws are almost dislocated. 1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook I. xi. 135 We dropt into the arms of Murfy. 1890 W. G. Stables For England, Home, & Beauty xiii. 194 It's the nightmare I'll be having..as soon as I'm in the arms av Murphy. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 614 Wrapped in the arms of Murphy, as the adage has it, dreaming of fresh fields and pastures new. 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 79/1 Murphy's (Morpheus) arms, sleeping time, lights out (prison). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Murphyn.² Brit. /ˈməːfi/, U.S. /ˈmərfi/ Forms: 1800s– murfey (English regional (south-west midlands), in sense 1), 1800s– murphey (in sense 1), 1800s– Murphy, 1800s– murphy. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Murphy. Etymology: < the widespread Irish surname Murphy. slang. 1. A potato. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > potato > types of baker1651 Irish potato1664 sprout1771 London lady1780 ox-noble1794 pink-eye1795 kidney1796 Suriname1796 round1800 yam potato1801 bluenose1803 yam1805 bead-potato1808 Murphy1811 lumper1840 blue1845 salmon1845 merino1846 regent1846 pink1850 redskin potato1851 fluke1868 snowflake1882 magnum1889 ware1894 snowdrop1900 King Edward1902 Majestic1917 red1926 fingerling1930 Pentland1959 chipper1961 Maris Peer1963 Maris Piper1963 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Murphies, potatoes. 1812 Murphy Delany's Feast 6 Next to the table came a Sheep's head hot, It's [sic] mouth with a murphy cramm'd, sir. 1827 P. Egan Anecd. Turf 151 Mathews relished the Irish stews and murpheys with greater goût. 1847 H. Melville Omoo lix. 227 The rich, tawny soil seemed specially adapted to the crop; the great yellow murphies rolling out of the hills like eggs from a nest. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. vi. 127 She bakes such stunning murphies. 1891 J. F. Soop Bobbins the Waif i. 9 If I could only have one good square sock at him with this here murphy! 1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 154 Murfeys, potatoes. SE Worc. and elsewhere. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Sept. 20/2 There was a leakage from a sack of murphies brought ashore at Whangara. 1975 Thames Star 18–21 Nov. 1/1 Mrs Ward's magnificent murphy is not however, destined for the cooking pot. 2. U.S. Short for Murphy game n. at Compounds. Esp. in to play the Murphy. ΚΠ 1966 N.Y. Times 4 Sept. iv. 5 Everybody should have a car... How are you going to get it?.. You know, you can get it playing the Murphy. 1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 83 Murphy, a con game played on innocent (especially white) men who are expecting sex with a prostitute (usually black). 1976 in D. Wepman et al. Life 41 I'll play the Murphy to the point of death. 1990 S. Morgan Homeboy ii. 25 Passing back into the club, she palmed Joe a twenty, his cut of the Murphy. Compounds Murphy game n. [claimed by some sources to be either the name of a man who originated the trick, or the name of a fictitious woman used to lure the victim] U.S. a confidence trick in which the victim is duped, usually by an unfulfilled promise of money or sex. ΚΠ 1957 Ebony July 55/1 Each year handkerchief trick, Murphy game, pigeon chop and other confidence operations, with aid of teen-age girls, fleece willing but unwitting persons out of some $20,000,000. 1965 Time 16 Apr. 16 ‘The Murphy game’ is underworld argot for a slick maneuver in which a victim puts his cash in an envelope and gives it to the con man, who makes a fast sleight-of-hand switch and hands back an identical envelope stuffed with newspaper strips. Murphy man n. U.S. a man who practises the Murphy game; a confidence trickster. ΚΠ 1972 J. Mills Rep. to Commissioner 55 We stop in a bar..and it's filled with pimps, Murphy men, guys like that. 1976 in D. Wepman et al. Life 80 By the sleight-of-hand of a Murphy man. Murphy's countenance n. British (now historical) = Murphy's face n. ΚΠ 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 544/2 Murphy's countenance, a pig's head. Murphy's face n. British (now historical) a pig's head. ΚΠ 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 544/2 Murphy's face, a pig's head. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Murphyn.³ Brit. /ˈməːfi/, U.S. /ˈmərfi/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Murphy. Etymology: < the name of John Benjamin Murphy (1857–1916), U.S. surgeon. Surgery. 1. Murphy's button n. (also Murphy button) a device consisting of two short telescopic metal tubes each with a button-like end, used to perform end-to-end anastomosis of the intestine. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other medical equipment > [noun] > other miscellaneous equipment wresting thread1616 tractors1798 tetanomotor1860 examining table1877 wire instrumenta1884 wristband1884 nasal spray1888 mackintosh sheet1889 gas mask1892 bath-bed1894 inspissator1897 Murphy's button1899 trembling-chair1899 solenoid1901 sunray1921 oxygenator1928 white cane1930 white stick1930 microdrive1955 photocoagulator1965 bubble1966 stimoceiver1967 hospital gown1970 smart pill1988 1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons) 607 Anastomosis Buttons (Murphy's), circular, for intestinal approximation, etc.] 1899 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 Dec. 1730/1 Murphy's button, of course, may be employed. 1909 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 81 377 The cut ends of the intestine [were] united by a Murphy button. 1986 Surg., Gynecol. & Obstetr. 163 121 250 patients with cirrhosis and bleeding esophageal varices underwent portal disconnection of the esophagus using either Murphy's button (before 1974) or an esophageal device developed by one of the authors (after 1974). 1994 Surg. Endoscopy 8 1190 The biofragmentable anastomosis ring, a modern version of the Murphy Button. 2. Murphy's sign n. painful interruption of a patient's deep inspiration when a physician palpates the right hypochondrium, indicative of gall bladder disease. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [noun] > specific result of diagnostic test pita1398 pitting1670 fremitus1879 Murphy's sign1908 past-pointing1916 1908 Practitioner Dec. 823 In these cases [of cholecystitis] a rigid rectus muscle on the right side, hyperalgesia of the skin over the gall-bladder region, and Murphy's sign are generally present. 1974 R. M. Kirk et al. Surgery vi. 99 If steady pressure is exerted under the right costal margin and the patient is then asked to breathe in, she feels pain and often gasps as the inflamed gallbladder meets the point of pressure. This is Murphy's sign. 1995 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 3) II. xiv. 2049/2 Right hypochondrial tenderness is present and is exacerbated by inspiration (Murphy's sign). This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Murphyn.⁴ Brit. /ˈməːfi/, U.S. /ˈmərfi/, Canadian English /ˈmɜrfi/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Murphy. Etymology: < the name of William Lawrence Murphy (1876–1959), U.S. manufacturer, who produced the original design. North American. attributive. Designating any of various types of beds that can be folded away, esp. into a wall cupboard. Frequently in Murphy bed. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > folding bed for camp or travelling > folding bed for house turn-down bed1840 wall bed1913 Murphy bed1918 stretcher1943 1918 Hotel Monthly Feb. 3 (advt.) Mr. Statler four years ago used Murphy beds when he built his New Hotel Statler-Detroit. 1930 N.Y. Times 2 Mar. xiii. 10/2 (advt.) Apartments Unfurnished... 40s East—Most charming one-room apartment in town; restaurant, telephone service, Murphy beds: $78.50. 1974 Apartment Life May e2/2 The concealed wall bed, best known as a Murphy bed in the 1930s, is coming out of the woodwork again. 1995 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 7 May g2/2 A Murphy bed, which pulls down out of the wall, lets you get two uses out of a room. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Murphyv. Brit. /ˈməːfi/, U.S. /ˈmərfi/ Forms: 1900s– Murphey, 1900s– Murpheyed (past participle), 1900s– Murphied (past participle), 1900s– Murphy, 1900s– Murphyed (past participle). Also with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Murphy n.² Etymology: < Murphy n.² (see sense 2 at that entry). U.S. slang. transitive. To dupe, to swindle, esp. by means of the Murphy game. See Murphy n.² 2. ΚΠ 1965 N.Y. Times 6 Apr. 1/3 Mayor Smitherman..and..a Selma lawyer..were ‘murphyed’ by the Negro confidence man at 2:30 a.m. today. 1972 J. Mills Rep. to Commissioner 52 I thought he was a complainant…some school kid who'd been Murpheyed. 1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Dec. a27 It [sc. the U.S. government] got Murphied into selling arms to the Khomeini regime–and its pockets picked by middlemen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1750n.²1811n.³1899n.⁴1918v.1965
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