dixie

See also: Dixie

English

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪk.si/

Noun

dixie (plural dixies)

1. (military) A large iron pot, used in the army.
   • 1903, Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Royal Commission on the War in South Africa‎^[1], H.M. Stationery Office, 1903

     four men generally like to mess together, and one cooking pot among them takes the place of a mess-tin or "dixie"

   • 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

a large iron pot, used in the army

• Bengali: ডেকচি (ḍekoci)
• Hindi: देगची (hi) f (degcī), देगचा (hi) m (degcā), देग (hi) m (deg)
• Russian: котело́к (ru) m (kotelók)
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• Urdu: دیگچی f (degcī), فوجی دیگچی f (faujī degcī)

References

• “dixie”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “dixie”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “dixie”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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Spanish

Noun

dixie m (plural dixies)

1. dixie