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.
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.
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