different between anglicized vs murphy

English

anglicized (comparative more anglicized, superlative most anglicized)

anglicized

From the common Irish name Murphy. Compare Donovan (“a potato”).

murphy (plural murphies)

An Irish or white potato.
- 1857, Thomas Hughes. Tom Brown's School Days, chapter VI
  " […] she bakes such stunning murphies—we'll have a penn'orth each for tea; come along, or they'll all be gone."
- a. 1848, William Thackeray, "Peg of Limavaddy", in The Irish Sketch Book (1848), page 147
  To the chimney nook, / Having found admittance, / There I watch a pup / Playing with two kittens / (Playing round the fire, / Which of blazing turf is, / Roaring to the pot / Which bubbles with the murphies) […]

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