finnav.
/ˈfɪnə/, U.S. /ˈfɪnə/ U.S. regional and colloquial (originally esp. in African-American usage).
‘Fixing to’ (see fix v. 16a); intending or preparing to; about to.Followed by a bare infinitive. Either preceded by auxiliary be (as in he’s finna go) or without be, as a simple modal auxiliary (as in he finna go).
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1985 D. Vilmure in Harvard Advocate Dec. 32/1 Luh-leave me be, muh-mama. I finna be guh-goin' to buh-bed soon.
1993 alt.rap 29 Nov. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 7 Oct. 2019) It stopped rainin outside so iz finna get outta this computer lab.
2004 Source Dec. 90/1 When things started slowing down, my feeling was, ‘I'm not finna be broke’.
2019 @1TmaQuin 18 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 27 Sept. 2019) Im finna drop a album..you ready?
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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v.1985- stand at livery
- stand at nothing
- stand at one's deliverance
- stand at one's peremptors
- stand at receipt
- stand at salute
- stand at shilly-shally
- stand at shillyshally
- stand at stave's end
- stand at stud
- stand at the gaze
- stand at the salute
- stand at the staff's end
- stand at the steerage
- stand attention
- stand away
- stand awe
- stand awe of
- stand back
- stand bear the test of time
- stand bed
- stand before
- stand behind
- stand beside
- stand between