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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.
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.
durrie by Tama Boyle February 6, 2007
Related Words
Durrie • durrie muncher • durrie cunt • durrie hole • smacking a durrie • Durries • durie • Durre • durri • Dorrie
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
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
Durrie
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
Spoken by the bevan, who carries in the other hand a stubbie of XXXX, Tooheys or VB
Durrie by jamesbrown April 23, 2003
Durrie
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.
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.
Durrie by Barratrooper October 9, 2018
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