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Used throughout New Zealand and a large part of Australia as an all round term for a (tobacco) cigarette.
Despite my most concerted efforts, I have yet to find an acceptable etymology for this word. I can only surmise that it has been lost in the Mists Of Time. E ta, bro, giz a durrie.
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(often, 'Durry')
Generic term for a cigarette in the Antipodeas, esp. Australia. Short for 'Bull Durham' - an old brand of rolling tobacco. "David Bradley, Australian Journal of Linguistics (1989) suggests that it may be derived from a widely used brand of loose tobacco used for roll-your-owns, Bull Durham, clipped and resuffixed with the most productive suffix for forming new colloquial words in Australian English." Source: AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL DICTIONARY CENTRE Please will you light my Durrie mate.
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Cigarette, Australian saying, commonly used in Queensland, sometimes not understood in other parts of Australia.
Spoken by the bevan, who carries in the other hand a stubbie of XXXX, Tooheys or VB |
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A slang term for cigarette. Used mainly in Australia but sometimes New Zealand. "Oi ranga!" "Yer mate?" "Passus a durrie would ya!"
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An Australian slang term for a cigarette, usually a rollie. may I buy a packet of durries, cheers mate?
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'hey man, got a durrie?'
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