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Opium vs Murphy - What's the difference?

opium | murphy |

As nouns the difference between opium and murphy

is that opium is opium while murphy is an irish or white potato.

opium

English

(wikipedia opium)

Noun

  • (uncountable) A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum , and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
  • (countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.
  • * "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, . . . It is the opium of the people." -

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    murphy

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , the anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Murchadha
  • * (Herman Melville), Omoo
    • 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.
  • in occasional use, transferred from the surname.
  • * 2012 (Louise Erdrich), The Round House , Corsair (2013), ISBN 9781472108166, page 178:
    • 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.

    See also

    * Murphy's law