Durry is the spread 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.
In particular, the most common form of smoking in Australia is tobacco smoking which is practised in a myriad of types.
Bush tobacco is a native Australian tobacco plant, often known as Pituri, Pitjuri or Mingkulpa. The use of bush tobacco varies across regions but seems to be most common within Aboriginal populations in the central desert regions of Australia.
cocky. A small-scale farmer; (in later use often applied to) a substantial landowner or to the rural interest generally. In Australia there are a number of cockies including cow cockies, cane cockies and wheat cockies.
Grog is a general term for beer and spirits (but not wine). Australians enjoy having a few beers or a bevvie (short for beverage), a frostie, a coldie or a couple of cold ones. Beer is also known as liquid amber, amber nectar or liquid gold.
dunny – a toilet, the appliance or the room – especially one in a separate outside building. This word has the distinction of being the only word for a toilet which is not a euphemism of some kind. It is from the old English dunnykin: a container for dung. However Australians use the term toilet more often than dunny.
Another title for a cigarette girl is candy girl. Aside from serving cigarettes and other novelties, the attractive girls acted as eye candy and were often employed to flirt with male customers as well. Cigarette girls usually consented in the hopes of getting tips from wealthy businessmen.
"broom," "cabbage," "cig," "gas bomb," "heater," "sausage," "smoke," "see- gar," "smoked sausage," "Spanish guitar," (rhymes with cigar), and "weed."
Having a DART? Did you know this originated as an Aussie term for cigarettes? Canadians say this slang especially in the prairie provinces. Some people think it's because you hold a cigarette similarly to how you would hold a dart.
Sunnies - A term native to Australia and New Zealand to describe sunglasses.
A: Ah, well, the main two players worldwide are “couch” and “sofa”. Sofa is more common in Britain, while couch is preferred in North America, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Q: Is there a difference?
That being said, let's start with something most of us will probably have sitting in the fridge or pantry: ketchup. Ketchup is underrated. We call it tomato sauce in Australia. Or just “sauce”.
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Depending on which country you are from, you may use the term, woollen sweater, wool jumper, pullover or jersey – they can all be used when referring to a wool jumper, woollen jumper Australia, knitwear Australia or woollen sweaters. Woolen jumpers Australia are what we know as a woollen pullover.
Bluey is an Australian nickname for a person with red hair. As a nickname, Bluey may refer to: Frank 'Bluey' Adams (born 1935), former Australian rules football player. Derek Arnold (born 1941), New Zealand former rugby union player.
(Australia, slang, mildly vulgar) An extremely amusing person or thing.
Cobber is an Australian and New Zealand word for "mate" or "friend".
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".
The Vikings throughout Scandinavia used pipes and the herb angelikarot was commonly smoked in Norway. In later years, chalk and iron pipes were mass-produced for sailors in Norway.
Higher smoking rates
Tobacco use is widespread among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples although smoking rates vary between regions and communities. Overall, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are almost 3 times more likely to smoke compared to non-Indigenous Australians.