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One morning the camp was all agog and the air thick with "furphies."

From "Over There" with the Australians by Knyvett, R. Hugh (Reginald Hugh)

About this time arose the first crop of rumours, or "furphies," which ever afterwards seemed to be an inseparable feature of military life.

From The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula by Collett, Herbert Brayley

From the Beach, where men of all units met, came the daily crop of "furphies" or rumours.

From The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula by Collett, Herbert Brayley