different between gurry vs durry

English

Etymology 1

From Hindi ???? (ga?h?, “fort”).

Noun

gurry (plural gurries)

1. (historical, India) A circular gong that was struck at regular intervals to indicate the time.
2. (historical, India) The time interval indicated by striking the gurry. Originally, this was twenty-two and a half minutes, but later, under British influence, changed to an hour.
3. (India) A small fort.

Etymology 2

Origin unknown. Attested from the mid-nineteenth century.

Noun

gurry (uncountable)

1. fishing offal

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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