diff --git a/profiles/shell/files/dotfiles/config/fish/conf.d/zoxide.fish b/profiles/shell/files/dotfiles/config/fish/conf.d/zoxide.fish
index eccd453..f7ba74c 100644
--- a/profiles/shell/files/dotfiles/config/fish/conf.d/zoxide.fish
+++ b/profiles/shell/files/dotfiles/config/fish/conf.d/zoxide.fish
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 if status is-interactive
     # zoxide initialization
     if type -q zoxide
+        # Work around fish 4.8+ no longer shipping functions/cd.fish on disk
+        # (builtins are now embedded in the binary), which makes zoxide's
+        # init script emit a harmless but noisy warning when it tries to
+        # read that file. Pre-define __zoxide_cd_internal from the live
+        # `cd` function so zoxide's script finds it already defined.
+        # https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide/issues/1272
+        if not builtin functions --query __zoxide_cd_internal
+            functions cd | string replace --regex -- '^function cd\s' 'function __zoxide_cd_internal ' | source
+        end
         _evalcache zoxide init fish | source
     end
 end