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A contraction of have/has not. It arose in the 1800s in the American South, and it's prevalent in Mark Twain literature. It's still used some by old people and really rural people, but it's largely a dead phenomenon.
-I hain't been anywhere today.
-Hain't you got anything better to do?
hain't by Eliott September 11, 2007
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Super Hick slang for the Moderate Hick slang word, "ain't."
"I hain't done a nary thang!"
hain't by ->!RAQDAWG!<- May 4, 2005
"A hain't lives there"~ Jem
Hain't by Rahim9 February 5, 2023
A snobby, know-it-all, pretentious attitude. Similar in definition to hincty, but with much more flare.
You're attitude is very haintey! It's just too much. You are not even a member of this band yet, honey!

How she gonna come up in here all haintey when I know she got on some $2 shoes with that dress.
haintey by Shabomba May 16, 2007
Southern colloquialism
def., ghost, apparition, lost soul
On his way back from Mobile my friend was killed on Bloody 98, and now he's just another restless haint.
Haint by Big C August 15, 2003
Word of the Day on May 3, 2025
I thought I'd get off work early but my boss was being hainty so I had to stay late.
Hainty by baboust February 6, 2010