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Fixings   /fˈɪksɪŋz/   Listen
Fixings

noun
1.
Food that is a component of a mixture in cooking.  Synonym: ingredient.
2.
The accessories that normally accompany (something or some activity).  Synonym: trimmings.  "He bought a Christmas tree and trimmings to decorate it"


Fixing

noun
1.
The act of putting something in working order again.  Synonyms: fix, fixture, mend, mending, repair, reparation.
2.
Restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place.  Synonyms: fastener, fastening, holdfast.
3.
The sterilization of an animal.  Synonyms: altering, neutering.
4.
(histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body.  Synonym: fixation.



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"Fixings" Quotes from Famous Books



... to make sure of her hold on it—"in this world to know that the gentlemen are ashamed to show you attention. Now, I'm cleverer and better-looking than lots of girls in our set—Delia Spaulding, for instance—but I don't have half the attention she receives, just on account of her fixings and furbelows." ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876. • Various
... as well. Once women came to do their trading there with homemade basket, filled with eggs, butter, ginseng which they swapped for fixings, thread, and calico. They motor in ...
— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas


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