haint
/heɪnt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
contraction
Alternative form of ain't.
Example Sentences
- "Looking from juror to juror and seeking out the smug faces of the witnesses who'd testified against him, he repeated his threat. "Those who say I kilt anybody are liars," he proclaimed. "And each of you will be hainted every day for the rest of your life. Then the devil will have ye.""
- "After he killed him, Ed came back and he didn't have no head and he hainted [haunted] Ole Master until he died himself — getting in his way all the time — Ole Ed would be right there with him."
- "“I just don't think it happened that way,” he argued. “Otherwise, the ghost wouldn't still be hainting the tree.”"
- ""Ain't you scared of haints?""
- "I got a tree on my back and a haint in my house, and nothing in between but the daughter I am holding in my arms."
- "It didn't take long for word to spread that there was a "haint" in the graveyard. A haint is what the old-timers called a ghost."
Usage
- American usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.