hain't

Contraction

hain't

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