Durry = Cigarette Durry is the common Australian term for a cigarette. Among the younger generation, it is often called “ciggies” or “darts”.
Etymology 1
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.
On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cigarette, such as: smoke, butt, cubeb, fag, puff, and reefer.
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a cigarette, a dhurrie: Hey mate can u spare a bulyu ? Contributor's comments: This is an Aboriginal word from northern and western South Australia, literally meaning "smoke", traditionally the smoke from a fire, but now used to refer to tobacco as in "gimme bulyu" "give me a cigarette".
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Durry, a New Zealand or Australian slang term for cigarette.
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Jonesing is still used for some legal substances: I'm jonesing for a drink or I'm jonesing for a cigarette.
“Mate” is a popular word for friend. And while it's used in other English-speaking countries around the world, it has a special connection to Australia. In the past, mate has been used to address men, but it can be gender-neutral. In Australia, you'll also hear mate used in an ironic sense.
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Australian slang is not dying, it's making its way up in the world.
Ciggies, darts, durries, rollies, smokes, fags, butts, cancer sticks.