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fix to en · VERB
Meanings
(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: