"fixing to" meaning in English

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          "text": "Three of us boys, myself, Iver Holt, and Webbie Touchstone crawled upon this board that went across the tank to dive off. I was fixing to, but [one of the other boys] got up there before I did, […]",
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          "word": "finna"
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          "word": "fina"
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