dixie

Etymology

Hindi [Term?]

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪksi/

Noun

dixie (plural dixies)

1. (military) A large iron pot, used in the army.
   • 1917, Arthur Guy Empey, Over the Top:

     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.

   • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 261:

     And what those ‘dixies’ of hot tea signified no one knows who wasn't there to wait for them.

   • 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage 2014, p. 39:

     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.

2. Southern states of the USA.

Noun

dixie m (plural dixies)

1. dixie