Define Durrie Meaning

Used throughout New Zealand and 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.

In New Zealand and Australia - colloquial slang for a cigarette. Derived from the words 'Dunhill Red' - a popular brand of cigarette in those parts of the world, but widely used to refer to any cigarette - typically a tailor-made cigarette as opposed to a roll-your-own

Slang term for cigarettes, commonly heard in Western Sydney

cigarette

(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

from the old fashioned little white cotton bag of flakey
"Bull Duram" rolling tobacco.

cigarette

Aussie slang for cigarette - commonly known throughout Australia.

Cigarette, Australian saying, commonly used in Queensland, sometimes not understood in other parts of Australia.

Australian term for cigarette.

sometimes spelt with a y instead of an ie.

The term durrie is generally used by people in the Australian Defence force.