dixy

American  

[dik-see] / ˈdɪk si /

noun

Indian English.

• dixies
  plural

1. dixie.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dixies
  plural

Example Sentences

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dixy dixies

P.S.—By the way, see what your French dixy says for doughnut, and let me know by return.

From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed

We had both clean forgotten the French for milk, and we’d left the dixy at the inn.

From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed

Not even when Jim looked it up in the dixy and asked for noix à pâté.

From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed

They shelled us again next day and our tea dixy was hit; so that we didn't get any tea....

From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Chilled to the bone we drew nearer to the coffee dixies.

From The Red Horizon by Patrick MacGill

Some days we slope arms by numbers; and other days we clean dixies and indent for new boots.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 9, 1914 by Various

The men who did not obtain leave are carrying the iron cooking dixies for those four miles.

From Letters from France by C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean

Immediately upon arrival the horses were off-saddled and fed, the "dixies" were unearthed from off the pack-saddles and everything pointed to an early mug of tea and a much-needed rest.

From Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron by Unknown

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

From The Emma Gees by Herbert Wes McBride