durry
English
Etymology 1
Unknown. Possibly (putative obsolete brand of roll-your-own tobacco) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
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.
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Noun
durry (plural durries)
- (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.”
- 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin 2018, p. 3:
- This was the first thing Yolanda knew in the dark morning. (That and where's my durries?)
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