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Definitions
An erroneous or improbable story; also, a rumour.
Word origin
From Furphy (a surname), from the firm of J[ohn] Furphy and Sons. An often-repeated etymology is that during World War I (1914–1918), Australian soldiers in Europe and the Middle East often stood around water carts manufactured by the firm and emblazoned with its name to talk and exchange news and rumours.
Used in a sentence
“I know wot I wus born fer now, an' soljerin's me game, / That's no furphy; but I never guessed it once; […]”
“A number of the furphies and fads in relation to public-sector agricultural R&D relate to attempts to increase demand for farm products in various ways.”
“He's off his lolly. It's just bloody Buka talk. Another of their half-arsed furfies. And he knows it!”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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