hant

¹

or ha'nt

[ hant ]

verb (used with or without object)

, South Midland and Southern U.S.

1. haunt.

han't

²

[ heynt ]

Older Use.

1. a contraction of has not.
2. a contraction of have not.

Example Sentences

The ghost stories — or “hant stories,” as they were colloquially called — were part of a belief system that, as the historian Lawrence Levine argued, prevented “legal slavery from being spiritual slavery.”

From New York Times

“You looks like a hant. You git in bed and I’ll fix you a toddy and see kin you sleep. I bet you aint had a full night’s sleep since you lef.”

From Literature

He look at Sofia like she a hant.

From Literature

Anderson asked the man—who she declared to Frost to be a “hant”—to go away, by saying, “Lookee here, Mister, I jes an old colored woman, an I knows my place, an I wisht you wouldn’t walk wid me counta what folks might say.”

From Slate

He look at Sofia like she a hant This Henry Broadnax, Sofia say.

From Literature