Usually means: Rumor or story, often untrue.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word furphy:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. furphy: Merriam-Webster
  2. Furphy, furphy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. furphy: Collins English Dictionary
  4. furphy: Wordnik
  5. furphy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. furphy: Wiktionary
  7. furphy: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. furphy: Dictionary.com
  9. Furphy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. furphy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Furphy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. furphy, furphy: A Word A Day
  2. furphy: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. furphy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. furphy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Furphy)

▸ noun:  (Australia, slang) A rumour, or an erroneous or improbable story.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
furfie, frothy, facturd, fuckuppery, flother, fibbing, firie, fubbery, farlie, fizgig, more...

Opposite:
truth, fact, reality

Types:
water cart, dung cart, seed drill, lawn roller, lawn mower, reaper binder, stripper harvester, chaff cutter, more...

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Similar:
furfie, frothy, facturd, fuckuppery, flother, fibbing, firie, fubbery, farlie, fizgig, more...

Opposite:
truth, fact, reality

Types:
water cart, dung cart, seed drill, lawn roller, lawn mower, reaper binder, stripper harvester, chaff cutter, more...



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