Definition of "gwine" []

• Chiefly Southern & South Midland U.S. A present participle of go1. (verb)

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• "I'se monst'ous glad ter praise de Lawd fur what He done done, but I ain 'gwine ter gin' im credit fur de wuk er my own fis 'en foot."
• "I run to my sister Jessie cause she had been live in New York en she was well acquainted wid dat kind of gwine on."
• "For Master Ralph has seated himself flatly on a footstool, and with his back against the wall, refuses in the dumbest of dumb-show to be entrapped into "gwine" anywhere."