Durrie Edit Meaning

1.

Used throughout New Zealandand 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.

See cigarette, durry, fag, tab, tobacco

2.

(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.

See cigarette, smoke, tobacco, puffer, gasper

3.

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 stubbieof XXXX, Tooheysor VB

Hey bloke, can I scaba durrie off you?

4.

Australian term for cigarette.

Mainly used by the australian defence force.

'hey man, got a durrie?'

See cigarette, smoke, tobacco, durry

5.

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

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

See smoke, cigarette, bogan, australia, durrie, aussie

6.

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

may I buy a packet of durries, cheers mate?