ax
noun
an instrument with a bladed head on a handle or helve, used for hewing, cleaving, chopping, etc.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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“And that, my lamb,” returned Grizel calmly, “is just precisely what I am axing myself!”
From An Unknown Lover by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey