Melvin vs Murphy - What's the difference?
melvin | murphy |
* 1824 , The Life of Andrew Melville, W. Blackwood (1824), page 416:
transferred from the surname.
* 1976 , My Life on Trial: An Autobiography , Morrow, ISBN 0688030858, page 21:
, the anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Murchadha
* (Herman Melville), Omoo
in occasional use, transferred from the surname.
* 2012 (Louise Erdrich), The Round House , Corsair (2013), ISBN 9781472108166, page 178:
As nouns the difference between melvin and murphy
is that melvin is a wedgie performed from in front of the victim while murphy is an irish or white potato.melvin
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Melville always wrote his name Melvinus'' in Latin, and he is often called ''Melvin''''' in English. Hence some have concluded that '''''Melvin'' , and not ''Melville , was his proper name. But they are merely different modes of pronouncing the same family appellation.
- And for some reason, they called me Pete. My mother, who probably dug up the name Melvin from some romantic novel about Englishmen drinking tea, cringed at the "Pete".
murphy
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- After a long talk between these two, and a little broken English from the Frenchmen, our visitors took leave; but Father Murphy had hardly gone a dozen rods when back he came, inquiring whether we were in want of anything.
- Sonja made me promise I would go to college. She said she'd wanted her daughter, Murphy', to go. She'd named her baby ' Murphy because it could never be a stripper name. But her daughter had changed her name to London.
