Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also durrie) a cigarette, esp. when hand-rolled; thus digital durry, an e-cigarette.

1915		Truth (Brisbane) 25 July 12/1: For reply, the compatriot humped his shoulders more securely against the convenient post, crossed one immaculate boot over the other, and removed the 'durry' from the gash in his chiv.
1954		Longreach Leader (Qld) 24 Sept. 7/1: Mr D. Hoare was to be paid 1/- a night for every night the hall was engaged by a travelling company to stop smoking in the prohibited places. He had instructions to take the names of any person who refused to ‘dump the durry’ when requested.
1979		S. Weller Old Bastards I Have Met 77: Diddler always had a durry hanging on his lip and I woke. If the durry was hanging on his chin, he had no more than a good pair and was going for a ride.
1982		Sydney Morn. Herald 18 Sept. 1/5: Cigarettes, also known as durries, lungbusters and backnails are still smoked behind the toilet block after school.
1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 41/2: durry cigarette, usually roll-your-own, the makings often called durries, perhaps associated with Bull Durham brand tobacco, though Partridge ponders possible link with ‘duria’, fire; eg ‘Fling us your durries, will ya, mate. I’m dying for a smoke.’ c. 1910.
1992		M. Coleman Fatty 224: ‘Bullfrog loved those durries,’ Vautin said. ‘He always had a Camel hanging out of his north and south’.
2006		P. Shannon Davey Darling 112: My Mum guts-dragging her durries on the back step.
2010		L. Redhead Thrill City [ebook] I sucked in smoke, blew it out, handed the durry back.
2016		Facebook 15 July 🌐 It was right next to the watering hole where old mate shit his daks when this daggy, yobbo bugger came at him with an axe. No dramas tonight but, and I lit up a durry, thought about my hard yakka and headed to the dunny.
2020		D. Whish-Wilson Shore Leave 82: ‘If you got me a cigarette? You Aussies call that a durry, am I right?’.
2021		Betoota-isms 118: Digital Durry [...] 1. An e-cigarette 2. Any variety of vape, vape pen or electronic device used to smoke tobacco.

2. a cigarette butt.

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