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- verb nonstandard Present participle of
go .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I'se monst'ous glad ter praise de Lawd fur what He done done, but I ain 'gwine ter gin' im credit fur de wuk er my own fis 'en foot.
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For Master Ralph has seated himself flatly on a footstool, and with his back against the wall, refuses in the dumbest of dumb-show to be entrapped into "gwine" anywhere.
Harper's Young People, January 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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I run to my sister Jessie cause she had been live in New York en she was well acquainted wid dat kind of gwine on.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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So it spread like wild-fire that "Old Sledge" was coming, and Devil Bill was "gwine" to whip him and make him dance and sing a "hime," and treat to a gallon of peach and brandy besides.
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"'Scuse me," he said, "but 'pears like I can't stan' another minit, what with bein 'up all night with Miss Dory, an' gwine 'crost the lake twiste for nothin', 'case I didn't find him."
The Cromptons Mary Jane Holmes 1866
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You don't hear many white people saying 'gwine' for 'going' any more, for instance, and the young people don't say 'set' for 'sit' and 'git' for 'get,' as their fathers did. "
American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913
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I'm a-comin ', I'm a-comin', an 'I'm shorely gwine to get yer!
All Gold Cañon 2010
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I'm gwine to get yer as shore as punkins ain't cauliflowers!
All Gold Canon 2010
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I'm gwine to get yer as shore as punkins ain't cauliflowers!
All Gold Cañon 2010
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Yassuh, we's jus gwine keep us heads down and be thankful they ain't hanged us yet.
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