subs. (American).—Properly a hash, stew, or fricassee of chicken, but the term is now applied to any fare out of the common, and also to show of any kind. French, la gueulardise. Cf., COMMON DOINGS.
1864. A Trip to the South. An extraordinary sight were the countless waiters, held up to the car-windows at Gordonsville by turbaned negro-women, filled with coffee-cups, eggs, and the inevitable CHICKEN-FIXINGS, which it was henceforth our fate to meet at every railway depot, till we reached New Orleans.
1843. B. R. HALL (‘Robert Carlton’) The New Purchase, II., 140. [These preachurs] dress like big-bugs, and go ridin about the Purchis on hunder-dollur hossis, a-spunginin on poor priest-riden folks and a-eaten fried CHICKEN FIXINS so powerful fast that chickens has got skerse in these diggins.
