durry

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English

Etymology 1

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

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Noun

durry (plural durries)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A cigarette, especially a roll-your-own.
    • 2003, C. C. Saint-Clair, Far from Maddy‎, 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, 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, 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?)
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Etymology 2

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Noun

durry

  1. Alternative form of dhurrie

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