murphy

(mʉr)

noun pl. murphies

Slang a potato

Origin: after Murphy, Ir surname

See murphy in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. Mur·phies
Slang
  1. A Murphy game.
  2. or murphy A potato.

Origin:

Origin: From Murphy, a common Irish name

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, William Parry 1892-1987.

American physician. He shared a 1934 Nobel Prize for discovering that a diet of liver relieves anemia.

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