gwineter
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Contraction edit
gwineter
- (African-American Vernacular) Contraction of going to
- 1886, Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings/Mr. Bear catches Old Mr. Bull-Frog[1]:
- ‘Ef you gwineter kill me, Brer B’ar, kyar me ter dat big flat rock out dar on de aidge er de mill-pon’, whar I kin see my fambly, en atter I see um, den you kin take you axe en sqush me.’
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter XLIII”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
- "DAH, now, Huck, what I tell you?--what I tell you up dah on Jackson islan'? I TOLE you I got a hairy breas', en what's de sign un it; en I TOLE you I ben rich wunst, en gwineter to be rich AGIN; en it's come true; en heah she is! DAH, now! doan' talk to ME--signs is SIGNS, mine I tell you; en I knowed jis' 's well 'at I 'uz gwineter be rich agin as I's a-stannin' heah dis minute!"