durrie 

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.

durrie by Tama Boyle February 6, 2007

Durrie  

(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.

Durrie by Josh23 March 9, 2008

Durrie 

A slang term for cigarette. Used mainly in Australia but sometimes New Zealand.

"Oi ranga!" "Yer mate?" "Passus a durrie would ya!"

Durrie by james-ranga-69 October 16, 2008

Durrie 

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

Hey bloke, can I scab a durrie off you?

Durrie by jamesbrown April 23, 2003

Durrie 

An Australian slang term for a cigarette, usually a rollie.

may I buy a packet of durries, cheers mate?

Durrie by Draegath March 11, 2003

Durrie 

Smoking a durrie refers to a cigarette.
During the 1st world war, ANZACs , particularly the Australian Light Horse, trained in Egypt before deploying to the Dardanelles. While training they had some time off in towns, where they could buy souvenirs and comfort items like tobacco. Tobacco was sold in the market place, and displayed on carpets, called dhurries. If you got to the market at the end of the day, and bought the last of the tobacco, they sometimes got some carpet fluff mixed in with the tobacco, and the diggers joked that they were smoking more carpet fluff than tobacco, hence the term smoking a dhurrie. Still used in the Australian army to this day as slang for a smoke= durrie.

Hey mate, can I Bludge a Durrie off ya?

Durrie by Barratrooper October 9, 2018

Durrie 

Australian term for cigarette.

Mainly used by the australian defence force.

'hey man, got a durrie?'

Durrie by ksm. November 4, 2008