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語源 1

動詞

haint (third-person singular simple present haints, present participle hainting, simple past and past participle hainted)

1. (US, dialectal) Alternative form of haunt.
   • 1988, Randy Russell, Janet Barnett, “Dead Dan's Shadow on the Wall”, in Mountain Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of Western North Carolina, page 5:

     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."

   • 2003, Winson Hudson, Derrick Bell, Constance Curry, Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter, page 17:

     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.

   • 2003, W. Bruce Wingo, There Grows a Crooked Tree‎, page 92:

     “I just don't think it happened that way,” he argued. “Otherwise, the ghost wouldn't still be hainting the tree.”

名詞

haint (plural haints)

1. (US, dialectal) A ghost; a supernatural being; Alternative form of haunt.
   • 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:

     "Ain't you scared of haints?"

   • 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, page 18:

     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.

   • 2005, Eulie Rowan, “The Four-Legged Haint”, in The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs, Simon and Schuster, page 106:

     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.

   • 2009, Mary Monroe, God Still Don't Like Ugly‎, page 211:

     My dead grandpa's haint floated above my bed one night when I was a young'un and scared me so bad I busted the bedroom door down tryin' to get out that room so fast.

派生語

• haint blue

関連する語

• ha'nt, hant, harnt

語源 2

短縮形

haint

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of ain't.

アナグラム

• hatin', ahint, Ihnat, Thain, Intha, IHNTA