'whistle Dixie' definitions:

Definition of 'whistle Dixie'

From: GCIDE
  • Dixie \Dix"ie\ (d[i^]ks"[y^]), prop. n.
  • 1. A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War. [U.S.]
  • Syn: Dixieland, Dixie Land, the Confederacy, Confederate States of America, the South.
  • Syn: . [1913 Webster]
  • 2. a song popular in the Confederate states during the American Civil War, and still played as a nostalgic anthem by those patriotic to the American south. It was written by Daniel D. Emmett in 1859. [PJC]
  • whistle Dixie to talk unrealistically; to engage in unrealistic or overoptimistic fantasies; as, that ain't just whistlin' Dixie. [PJC]