Durrie vs Durry - What's the difference?
durrie | durry | Alternative forms |
(Australia, slang)
* 1998 , Phillip Gwynne, ,
(Australia and New Zealand, colloquial, slang) A cigarette, especially a roll-your-own.
* 2003 , , Far from Maddy ,
* 2004 , Jay Verney, Percussion ,
* 2007 , Kevin Hallewell, Woop Woop ,
Durrie is an alternative form of durry.
As nouns the difference between durrie and durry
is that durrie is (australia|slang) or durrie can be while durry is (australia and new zealand|colloquial|slang) a cigarette, especially a roll-your-own.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
durry
English
Alternative forms
* durrieNoun
(durries)page 224,
- “Fire-head lady, you got a smoke?” asks the younger of the two men. “You got a durry . Cigarette.” His timbre is low but void of inflexion. “Come,” he says again, brown hand scooping the air in front of him.
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.
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.