dixie

From Hindi देगची (degcī) or Bengali ডেগচি (ḍegci, “cooking pot”), both from Persian دیگ‎ (dig, “pot”) + ـچه‎ (diminutive suffix).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪksi/

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, 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.

dixie m (plural dixies)

1. dixie