A common surname from Irish, the anglicized form of Irish Ó Murchadha
murphy
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for murphy.
Editorial note
Dervla Murphy (Irish solo travel writer, in her eighties now) has often expounded the value of travelling alone.
Quick take
A common surname from Irish, the anglicized form of Irish Ó Murchadha
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of murphy gathered in one view.
A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
A number of places in the United States:
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for murphy.
noun
A common surname from Irish, the anglicized form of Irish Ó Murchadha
See also: tater, white-potato, irish-potato, potato, spud
noun
A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
See also: tater, white-potato, irish-potato, potato, spud
noun
A number of places in the United States:
See also: tater, white-potato, irish-potato, potato, spud
noun
A census-designated place, the county seat of Owyhee County, Idaho.
See also: tater, white-potato, irish-potato, potato, spud
Example sentences
Dervla Murphy (Irish solo travel writer, in her eighties now) has often expounded the value of travelling alone.
Meanwhile, Wikipedia has links to articles where Murphy has made absolutely worded claims that have turned out to be completely wrong.
Better let someone else take on Murphy to determine if it's true in practice.
Steve Murphy has loudly been expounding about the family history meme for years now.
The patch was provided by Ben Murphy directly (the same researcher uncovering the issue).
Meghan Murphy writes quite a lot about it so see her other pieces.
But Daniel Murphy has written a C++ to D converter, and it's looking like the next release will have dmd written in D.
That is Murphy trolling you very, very hard.
Not because he is 30, Audie Murphy [1] was 19 when he won the Medal of Honor, was an accomplished actor and had two kids by 30, but because his experience is very narrow and not particularly deep.
Quote examples
Writing the decision for the Court, Justice Frank Murphy advanced a “two-tier theory” of the First Amendment.
Murphy would lose today but his games were beautiful, maybe even "incorrect" by today's standards.
I ran some back-of-the-envelope calculations based on Tom "Do the Math" Murphy's nation-sized battery, 336 TWh, sufficient for two weeks' reserve power.
Murphy's book is actually subtitled "A Probabilistic Perspective" -- "Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Approach" is a different book by a different author.
Proper noun examples
Murphy's law means you'll hit some edge case, your rollback will fail, and now you're trying to untangle yet another layer of things gone wrong.
This seems almost like a scientific way of stating Murphy's law with an addendum: anything that can happen, will happen..eventually.
Or perhaps some science fiction characters (like DNA on asking the right question), or Murphy's Law?
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use murphy in a sentence?
Dervla Murphy (Irish solo travel writer, in her eighties now) has often expounded the value of travelling alone.
What does murphy mean?
A common surname from Irish, the anglicized form of Irish Ó Murchadha
What part of speech is murphy?
murphy is commonly used as noun.