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dixie

/ˈdɪksi/UK/ˈdɪk.si/

dixie noun: a large iron pot, used in the army.

Noun

dixie (plural dixies)

  1. A large iron pot, used in the army.
    • four men generally like to mess together, and one cooking pot among them takes the place of a mess-tin or "dixie"1903, Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Royal Commission on the War in South Africa, H.M. Stationery Office
    • Then from the communication trenches came dixies or iron pots, filled with steaming tea, which had two wooden stakes through their handles, and were carried by two men.1917, Arthur Guy Empey, Over the Top

Proper noun capitalized: Dixie

Dixie

  1. (US, informal) The Southern United States, especially the former Confederate States.
    • The American Blacks' bias against gays is due to our forced socialization into Dixie Christian culture during slavery.1986, Max C. Smith, “By the Year 2000”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 227
  2. (US, informal) The southwestern corner of Utah.
  3. (US) A female given name transferred from the place name.
  4. A populated place in Maricopa County, Arizona.
  5. A census-designated place in Brooks County, Georgia.
  6. An unincorporated community in Newton County, Georgia.
  7. An unincorporated community in Elmore County, Idaho.
  8. An unincorporated community in Idaho County, Idaho.
  9. An unincorporated community in Harrison County, Indiana.
  10. An unincorporated community in Henderson County, Kentucky.
  11. An unincorporated community in Whitley County, Kentucky.
  12. An unincorporated community in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
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  1. An unincorporated community in Callaway County, Missouri.
  2. An unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon.
  3. A historical community in Grant County, Oregon.
  4. A historical community in Washington County, Oregon.
  5. An unincorporated community in Fluvanna County, Virginia.
  6. An unincorporated community in Mathews County, Virginia.
  7. A census-designated place in Walla Walla County, Washington.
  8. An unincorporated community in Harrison County, West Virginia.
  9. A census-designated place in Fayette County and Nicholas County, West Virginia.
  10. A neighbourhood of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
  11. A rural locality in the Shire of Cook, northern Queensland, Australia.
  12. A locality in the Shire of Corangamite, south western Victoria, Australia.

dixie meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

dixie in Hindi

a large iron pot, used in the army
देगची degcī, देगचा degcā, देग deg

dixie in Tamil

படைத்துறை சமையற்கலம்

dixie in Marathi

डिक्सी, डीक्सी

dixie in Urdu

a large iron pot, used in the army
دیگچی degcī, فوجی دیگچی faujī degcī
More languagesFewer languages
dixie in Bengali
ডেকচি ḍekoci
dixie in Telugu
డిక్సీ, డిక్సి
dixie in Malayalam
ഡിക്സി, ഡിക്സ്സി, ഡിക്സീ
dixie in Kannada
ಡಿಕ್ಸಿ, ಡಿಕ್ಸೀ
dixie in Punjabi
ਡਿਕਸੀ
dixie in Gujarati
ડિક્સી, ડીક્સી, ડિક્ઝી
dixie in Odia
ଡିକ୍ସି, ଡିକ୍ସୀ
dixie in Nepali
डिक्सी, डिक्सि

Examples of dixie in a sentence

  • And what those ‘dixies’ of hot tea signified no one knows who wasn't there to wait for them.1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, page 261:
  • Army rum is potent stuff, especially when the supplies of tea and water have run out, and one drinks it neat out of a dixie.1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage 2014, page 39:

Synonyms of dixie

Forms of dixie

pluraldixies

Origin of dixie

From Hindi देगची (degcī, “a kettle, a metallic cooking pot”), from Classical Persian دیگچه (degča, “a pot, small cauldron”), from دیگ (deg, “pot”) + ـچه (-ča).

First attested in 1859. Unknown, but may come from the Mason-Dixon line, the boundary between the northern states and the southern states, or from the slang term dixie for a Louisiana $10 bill (equivalent to English tenner), in turn from French dix (ten).

Words formed from dixie

Phrases with dixie

Words that rhyme with dixie

Questions about dixie

What does dixie mean?
Dixie means a large iron pot, used in the army.
What is dixie in Hindi?
Dixie in Hindi is देगची (degcī), देगचा (degcā), देग (deg). See Dixie meaning in Hindi.
How do you use dixie in a sentence?
And what those ‘dixies’ of hot tea signified no one knows who wasn't there to wait for them.
What part of speech is dixie?
Dixie can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce dixie?
Dixie is pronounced /ˈdɪk.si/ (UK).
What is the plural of dixie?
The plural of dixie is dixies.

Words near dixie in the dictionary

  1. dixi
  2. dixiamycin
  3. dixiamycins
  4. dixid
  5. dixids
  6. dixie
  7. Dixie Alley
  8. Dixie County
  9. dixie cup
  10. dixie cups
  11. Dixie Dingo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dixie (page history and authors); Dixie (page history and authors); dixie (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dixie (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dixie (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dixie (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dixie (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dixie (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dixie (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dixie (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dixie (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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