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hain't en · X

Pronunciation

• /heɪnt/

Meanings

1. (archaic, contraction, dialectal) has not
   • "But he never speaks ter anybody, child—he hain't for years, I guess, except when he just has to, for business, and all that." 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 8, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC:
2. (archaic, contraction, dialectal) have not
   • “Doan’ hurt me — don’t! I hain’t ever done no harm to a ghos’. I alwuz liked dead people, en done all I could for ’em. You go en git in de river agin, whah you b’longs, en doan’ do nuffn to Ole Jim, ’at ’uz awluz yo’ fren’.” 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
3. (contraction, dialectal, hypercorrect) ain’t