Durrie vs Dhurrie - What's the difference?
durrie | dhurrie |
(Australia, slang)
* 1998 , Phillip Gwynne, ,
A thick, flat-woven cotton Indian rug or carpet.
*1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 359:
*:They were hospitable and loved company We sat on a dhurrie under the open sky.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 12, author=Julie Scelfo, title=The $300 Makeover: West Village Studio, work=New York Times
, passage=Ms. Unger saw potential in objects that were stylish but in need of cleaning, so she took Ms. Rich’s cotton dhurrie home for a wash and spent half an hour scrubbing a flea market coffee table with Murphy Oil Soap. }}
As nouns the difference between durrie and dhurrie
is that durrie is (australia|slang) or durrie can be while dhurrie is a thick, flat-woven cotton indian rug or carpet.durrie
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)unnumbered page,
- ‘Deadly,’ she said, and passed me the durrie .
- I took a drag. Was she watching? No, thank goodness, she was looking down at the water again. I blew the smoke straight out, without taking it into my lungs.
- ‘Deadly,’ I said, and passed the durrie back to Clarence.
Etymology 2
dhurrie
English
(wikipedia dhurrie)Noun
(en noun)citation