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fix to en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (Appalachia, Southern-US, dated, informal, intransitive, qualifier:African-American Vernacular) To intend or prepare to do something.
    • Come on now, fellas. Just a lil closer. Nice and easy. Nothin' to worry about. We just fixin' to eat ya. 2006 April 14, Tim Hedrick, “The Swamp” (12:39 from the start), in Giancarlo Volpe, director, Avatar: The Last Airbender, season 2 (Book Two: Earth), episode 4, spoken by Due (Carlos Alazraqui):
    • It’s fixing to rain.
    • I’m fixing to whoop you if you don’t shut up.
    • Three of us boys, myself, Iver Holt, and Webbie Touchstone crawled upon this board that went across the tank to dive off. I was fixing to, but [one of the other boys] got up there before I did, […] 1925, The Southwestern Reporter, volume 266, page 434:

Forms

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fixes to Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
fixed to Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
fixed to Tense=Past lexicographic
fixing to Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic