"furphy" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From Furphy (“a surname”).\nThe firm of Furphy and Sons (still in business today) manufactured and supplied water carts to the Australian Imperial Force in Egypt during World War I. Soldiers stood around these and talked, exchanging rumours and news. The manufacturer's name, which was emblazoned on the carts, was soon adopted for unreliable information or speculation.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "furphies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "furphy (plural furphies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Julian M. Alston, Philip G. Pardey, Making Science Pay: The Economics of Agricultural R&D Policy, page 313:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Edward Wybergh Docker, Lynette Ramsay Silver, Fabulous Furphies: 10 Great Myths from Australia's Past:",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Mark Latham, The Latham Diaries, page 328:",
          "text": "Gartrell and Faulkner also released Maurie Daly's letter, which was sent to us on Monday, to the media, putting the Liverpool furphies to rest.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rumour, or an erroneous or improbable story."
      ],
      "id": "en-furphy-en-noun-Z8piVmec",
      "links": [
        [
          "rumour",
          "rumour"
        ],
        [
          "erroneous",
          "erroneous"
        ],
        [
          "improbable",
          "improbable"
        ],
        [
          "story",
          "story"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, slang) A rumour, or an erroneous or improbable story."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "scuttlebutt"
        },
        {
          "word": "furfie"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "slang"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Furphy and Sons",
        "University of New South Wales Press",
        "furphy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɜːfiː/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-furphy.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/En-au-furphy.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)fi"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Furphy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "furphy"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From Furphy (“a surname”).\nThe firm of Furphy and Sons (still in business today) manufactured and supplied water carts to the Australian Imperial Force in Egypt during World War I. Soldiers stood around these and talked, exchanging rumours and news. The manufacturer's name, which was emblazoned on the carts, was soon adopted for unreliable information or speculation.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "furphies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "furphy (plural furphies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)fi",
        "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)fi/2 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Julian M. Alston, Philip G. Pardey, Making Science Pay: The Economics of Agricultural R&D Policy, page 313:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Edward Wybergh Docker, Lynette Ramsay Silver, Fabulous Furphies: 10 Great Myths from Australia's Past:",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Mark Latham, The Latham Diaries, page 328:",
          "text": "Gartrell and Faulkner also released Maurie Daly's letter, which was sent to us on Monday, to the media, putting the Liverpool furphies to rest.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rumour, or an erroneous or improbable story."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rumour",
          "rumour"
        ],
        [
          "erroneous",
          "erroneous"
        ],
        [
          "improbable",
          "improbable"
        ],
        [
          "story",
          "story"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, slang) A rumour, or an erroneous or improbable story."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "slang"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Furphy and Sons",
        "University of New South Wales Press",
        "furphy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɜːfiː/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-furphy.ogg",
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)fi"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Furphy"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "scuttlebutt"
    },
    {
      "word": "furfie"
    }
  ],
  "word": "furphy"
}