different between durry vs lurry

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.

Suggested that it was a term brought back from ANZAC forces as a Dhurrie Rug and a cigarette are both rolled.

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

• durrie

Noun

durry (plural durries)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A cigarette, especially a roll-your-own.
   • 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?)

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:cigarette

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Noun

durry

1. Alternative form of dhurrie

Anagrams

• Drury, drury

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Of obscure origin. See lorry.

Verb

lurry (third-person singular simple present lurries, present participle lurrying, simple past and past participle lurried)

1. (transitive) To lug or pull about.
2. (transitive) To daub; dirty.

Related terms

• lorry

Etymology 2

Shortened form of liripipe.

Noun

lurry (plural lurries)

1. (obsolete) A confused heap; a throng or jumble, as of people or sounds.
   • 1664, Charles Cotton, Scarronides:

     How dur?t you Rogues take the opinion / To vapor here in my Dominion, / Without my leave, and make a lurry, / That men cannot be quiet for ye!

Verb

lurry (third-person singular simple present lurries, present participle lurrying, simple past and past participle lurried)

1. (intransitive) To hurry carelessly.