ha'nt
(US, especially, southern US) , haint.
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(US, especially, southern US) , haint.
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(US, especially, southern US) , ghost.
Joe-Bob and Nelly swore up and down that the thing that pushed their pick-up into the ditch wasn't a big brown bear, but a spectral '''ha'nt''', most likely Joe-Bob's deceased ex-wife.
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An American dialectal form of 'haunt' or 'haint,' meaning a ghost or spirit, used in rural Southern and Appalachian speech. The spelling reflects a regional pronunciation where the vowel is shifted and the 't' is retained. 'Harnt' carries the same folk-horror connotation as 'haint' — a spirit that lingers, usually associated with someone who died under troubling circumstances. It's the kind of word that appears in ghost stories, folk tales, and dialect literature of the American South.
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Negative contraction — variously "is not," "are not," "have not." Long stigmatized in formal English but ubiquitous in Southern, Black, and working-class American speech.