dixie
dixie Lexical Profile
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• noun
American (Usually capitalized as Dixie) A traditional nickname for the southern states of the United States, especially those that formed the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
"Folk songs from the nineteenth century frequently romanticized rural life in Dixie."
(Often capitalized) An informal short form for Dixieland jazz, an early style of jazz music that originated in New Orleans at the beginning of the twentieth century.
"The street band played upbeat dixie tunes on brass instruments and clarinets."
British A large iron or aluminum cooking pot or kettle with a lid, traditionally used by soldiers or campers for boiling tea or stew over an open fire.
"The campers set a heavy metal dixie over the campfire to boil water for their evening tea."
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Word Origin & Etymology
In its British military sense of a cooking pot, the word derives from Hindi 'degchi' (a small metal cooking vessel), borrowed from Persian 'degcha'. In its American geographical sense (capitalized as Dixie), it is commonly linked to Jeremiah Dixon, co-surveyor of the Mason-Dixon Line, or to ten-dollar banknotes stamped with the French word 'dix' ('ten') issued in New Orleans.