All murphy synonyms
mur·phy
M m verb murphy
- trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- fool — to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
- dupe — duplicate.
- fleece — the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.
- rook — one of two pieces of the same color that may be moved any number of unobstructed squares horizontally or vertically; castle.
- deceive — If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
- frame — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- gull — a person who is easily deceived or cheated; dupe.
- hoodwink — to deceive or trick.
- con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
- flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- sting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
- bluff — A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
- swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
- bamboozle — To bamboozle someone means to confuse them greatly and often trick them.
- delude — If you delude yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.
- chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
- gammon — deceitful nonsense; bosh.
- set up — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- take in — the act of taking.
- take for a ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
noun murphy
- yam — the starchy, tuberous root of any of various climbing vines of the genus Dioscorea, cultivated for food in warm regions.
- spud — Informal. a potato.
- tuber — a person or thing that forms, installs, or operates with tubes.
- plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- tater — potato.
- vegetable — any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower.