Materials for a meal: commonly used as an affix.
1838. So invariably are poultry and bacon visitants at an Illinois table, that the story may be true, that the first inquiry made of the guest by the village landlord is the following: “Well, stran-ger, what’ll ye take: wheat-bread and chicken fixens, or corn-bread and common doins?” by the latter expressive and elegant soubriquet being signified bacon.—E. Flagg, ‘The Far West,’ ii. 72 (N.Y.).
1843. A snug breakfast of chicken fixins, eggs, ham-doins, and even corn slap-jacks.—B. R. Hall (‘Robert Carlton’), ‘The New Purchase,’ ii. 58.
1847. Well, it was a nice weddin—sich ice cakes and minicles and rasins and oringis and hams, flour doins and chicken fixins, and four oncommon fattest big goblers rosted I ever seed.—T. B. Thorpe, ‘The Big Bear of Arkansas: Billy Warwick’s Courtship and Wedding,’ p. 104 (Phila.).
1856. Pretty girl that in the black fixings and white arrangements, with blue doings!—Knick Mag., xlvii. 406 (April). This use is very uncommon.
1859. Tell Sal to knock over a chicken or two, and get out some flour, and have some flour-doin’s and chicken-fixin’s for the stranger.—Id., liii. 317 (March).
1859. Instead of ‘store-tea,’ they had only ‘saxifax tea-doin’s,’ without milk, yet the repast was one to be long and gratefully remembered.—Id., liii. 318.
