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durrie

durrie is the alternative spelling of durry.

durrie is the alternative spelling of dhurrie.

Meaning of durry

Noun

durry (plural durries)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A cigarette, especially a roll-your-own.
    • “Fire-head lady, you got a smoke?” asks the younger of the two men. “You got a durry. Cigarette.”2003, C. C. Saint-Clair, Far from Maddy, page 224
    Synonyms:
    cigarette

Meaning of dhurrie

Noun

dhurrie (plural dhurries)

  1. A thick, flat-woven cotton Indian rug or carpet.
    • The eye-flies had colonized the top of an almeira; the red stains on the durry were thicker, for Mohammed Latif had slept here during his imprisonment and spat a good deal […].1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 262

Forms of durrie

pluraldurries

Questions about durrie

What is durrie the alternative spelling of?
Durrie is the alternative spelling of durry.

Words near durrie in the dictionary

  1. Durrence
  2. Durrences
  3. durres
  4. Durrett
  5. Durretts
  6. durrie
  7. durries
  8. Durrington
  9. Durrow
  10. Durrs
  11. durry

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