Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
bain't en · X
Meanings
(UK, contraction, dialectal) be not
"Bain't you glad that we've become gentlefolk?" 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 51:
"I aint afeard at all, I thank God!" said Christian strenuously. "I'm glad I bain't, for then 'twon't pain me... I don't think I be afeard—or if I be I can't help it, and I don't deserve to suffer. I wish I was not afeard at all!" 1871, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native: