Word.ws English Dictionary

hainting

hainting is the present participle and gerund of haint.

Meaning of haint

Noun

haint (plural haints)

  1. (US, dialectal) A ghost; a supernatural being; Alternative form of haunt.
    • "Ain't you scared of haints?"1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, part 2, page 254

Questions about hainting

What is hainting the present participle and gerund of?
Hainting is the present participle and gerund of haint.

Words near hainting in the dictionary

  1. Hainsworth
  2. Hainsworths
  3. haint
  4. haint blue
  5. hainted
  6. hainting
  7. haints
  8. Haiphong
  9. haique
  10. haiques
  11. hair

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hainting (page history and authors); haint (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hainting.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hainting. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.