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  • noun Plural form of dixie.

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Examples

  • However, when our cooks came out with "dixies" full of steaming tea, with bread and marmalade sandwiches, they soon became reconciled.

    The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride

  • We had a two hours 'wait here, and the "dixies" (about a dozen in all) were filled with water, and a huge fire was lighted, and soon a "long felt want" was satisfied in the form of tea.

    A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire Harold Harvey

  • They would fetch the char and bacon from the field kitchen in the morning and clean up the "dixies" after breakfast.

    A Yankee in the Trenches Robert Derby Holmes

  • There were not enough "dixies" for us all to have stew the same day.

    A Yankee in the Trenches Robert Derby Holmes

  • While the digging was proceeding, the "dixies" were being boiled for the breakfasts inside four grass-screens, some of which we found lying about, so as to show nothing but some very natural smoke above the kraal.

    The Defence of Duffer's Drift Ernest Dunlop Swinton 1909

  • How funny it seems now, when I think of no unbuckling our dixies half a mile from Stalag, ready for soup (?).

    Stan Prout 2010

  • July 30th: At last our truck door was opened and the 30 of us were told to get out - this is Rotenturm station, and marched with much clattering of tins & dixies, etc to Eisenzicken, Burgenland - 4 kilos from Hungary, where we were taken by the Burgermaster to an old converted cow-shed which was to serve as our sleeping quarters for many months.

    Stan Prout 2010

  • They drank deeply inserting their icicled faces onto our dixies; nice people!

    Work Camp 10760 L 2010

  • Jane had asked questions about the facilities; it looked like we were going to have dixies: chemical toilets.

    well, that was a disappointment nathreee 2008

  • The Colonel, after hearing their complaint and inspecting some of the dixies containing the food, said he would send down food from Headquarters.

    The First World War Memoirs of Sampson J. Goodfellow, Part 5: The Cookhouse Revolution ewillett 2008

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  • "It was his turn! There was nothing twix him and the bubbling, steaming food containers, his trembling hands would hold out his dixies, he would crouch forward like a sprinter in the blocks, his eyes would extend from his head like organ stops. The moment the last drop of gravy from the cook's spoon had finally fallen into his tin, Kidgell would start eating immediately as he walked to a spot to sit down."

    - Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall.'

    April 19, 2009