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Etymology 1 n. (context US dialectal English) ghost. vb. (context US dialectal English) (alternative form of haunt English) Etymology 2
contraction (lb en dialectal) (alternative form of ain't English)
Usage examples of "haint".
No, he druther hunt after catamounts and painters, in woods where catamounts haint mounted, and painters haint painted sence he wuz born.
He moved his hands, and the school of moving haints changed, came together, gusted suddenly through the golem, and where they passed they left a light in the core of the thing.
You say you haint heerd a strain of music except a base viol for over 14 years before you come here.
It wuz a very full dress, though I haint proud, and never wuz called so.
The afternoon wind had turned into a nighttime breeze, and I listened to the pines creaking and tried not to imagine the witch like whispers of haints perched in the branches.
Samantha, though they are well meanin', good people, they haint what you may call fashionable, they haint the upper 10.
A little too exclusive and aristocratic, mebby, but they haint done nothin' to you.
I haint no notion of settin' up in the pool or pond business, at my age.
Wall, it haint to be expected that I could walk along carryin' such hefty emotions as I wuz a carryin', and havin' my neck held high and stiddy both by principle and alpacky, and see to every step I wuz a takin'.
No, he druther hunt after catamounts and painters, in woods where catamounts haint mounted, and painters haint painted sence he wuz born.
Tizzy said finally, vexed by the hainting shade of her mother Laticia, or someone's poor mother, so black, so forlorn in shroud and veil.