durry

English

Etymology 1

Unknown. Perhaps from Bull Durham (an American tobacco brand) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).

Alternative forms

• durrie

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

durry (plural durries)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A cigarette, especially a roll-your-own. [from 20th c.]
   • 2003, C. C. Saint-Clair, Far from Maddy‎^[1], page 224:

     “Fire-head lady, you got a smoke?” asks the younger of the two men. “You got a durry. Cigarette.”

   • 2004, Jay Verney, Percussion‎^[2], page 118:

     He pulled a tobacco pouch out of his pocket with a plastic bag containing what had to be a mind-altering substance. “You′re welcome to join me in a durry,” he said, rolling himself a cigarette.

   • 2007, Kevin Hallewell, Woop Woop‎^[3], page 151:

     He thought for a moment as he deftly rolled the paper and tobacco into a durry, licked the edge and stuck it down.

   • 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 3:

     This was the first thing Yolanda knew in the dark morning. (That and where's my durries?)

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:cigarette

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Noun

durry

1. Alternative form of dhurrie

Anagrams

• Drury, drury