subs. (American).—A noun of all work. Applied to any and everything.
1842. DICKENS, American Notes, ch. x., p. 86. ‘Will you try,’ said my opposite neighbour, handing me a dish of potatoes, broken up in milk and butter, will you try some of these FIXINGS.’
1872. Daily Telegraph, 30 Sept. Still stoutly asserted by some sceptical Down-Easter to have been an itinerant dealer in hardware and kitchen FIXINGS from Salem, Mass.
