English

Proper noun

Dixie

1. (informal, US) The southern United States; the South.
2. (informal, US) The southwestern corner of Utah.
3. (US) A female given name transferred from the place name.

Synonyms

• Dixieland
• South

Derived terms

• Dixiecrat

References

• "Dixie" in Michael Quinion, Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds, 2004.

1. ↑ Funk, W. J., Word origins and their romantic stories, New York, Wilfred Funk, Inc.

English

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.

Translations

Spanish

Noun

dixie m ‎(plural dixies)

1. dixie