"cain't" meaning in All languages combined

See cain't on Wiktionary

Contraction [English]

IPA: /keɪnt/ Audio: en-US-southern-dialectical-can't.ogg
Rhymes: -eɪnt Etymology: A variant spelling of can't, representing the pronunciation of this word in the southern United States. Head templates: {{head|en|contraction|head=}} cain't, {{en-cont}} cain't
  1. (chiefly Southern US) Nonstandard form of can't. Tags: Southern-US, alt-of, contraction, nonstandard Alternative form of: can't
    Sense id: en-cain't-en-contraction-PvW0H-ik Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Southern US English
{
  "etymology_text": "A variant spelling of can't, representing the pronunciation of this word in the southern United States.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "contraction",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "cain't",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cain't",
      "name": "en-cont"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "can't"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Southern US English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985, James A. Michener, Texas: A Novel. Reprinted 2014, Random House Publishing Group, page 460",
          "text": "Stands to reason, the Mexican government, they cain’t persuade any real Mexican priests to travel all the way to Texas. Those hanker after the fleshpots of the big city. So the oney priests they can get to work in land s’far away are Irishmen who cain’t make no livin’ in Ireland, and who cain’t speak a word of Spanish neither, if’n you ask me."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Nonstandard form of can't."
      ],
      "id": "en-cain't-en-contraction-PvW0H-ik",
      "links": [
        [
          "can't",
          "can't#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly Southern US) Nonstandard form of can't."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Southern-US",
        "alt-of",
        "contraction",
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/keɪnt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-US-southern-dialectical-can't.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/40/En-US-southern-dialectical-can%27t.ogg/En-US-southern-dialectical-can%27t.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/En-US-southern-dialectical-can%27t.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪnt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cain't"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "A variant spelling of can't, representing the pronunciation of this word in the southern United States.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "contraction",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "cain't",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cain't",
      "name": "en-cont"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "can't"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English contractions",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English non-lemma forms",
        "English nonstandard forms",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/eɪnt",
        "Rhymes:English/eɪnt/1 syllable",
        "Southern US English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985, James A. Michener, Texas: A Novel. Reprinted 2014, Random House Publishing Group, page 460",
          "text": "Stands to reason, the Mexican government, they cain’t persuade any real Mexican priests to travel all the way to Texas. Those hanker after the fleshpots of the big city. So the oney priests they can get to work in land s’far away are Irishmen who cain’t make no livin’ in Ireland, and who cain’t speak a word of Spanish neither, if’n you ask me."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Nonstandard form of can't."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "can't",
          "can't#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly Southern US) Nonstandard form of can't."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Southern-US",
        "alt-of",
        "contraction",
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/keɪnt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-US-southern-dialectical-can't.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/40/En-US-southern-dialectical-can%27t.ogg/En-US-southern-dialectical-can%27t.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/En-US-southern-dialectical-can%27t.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪnt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cain't"
}

Download raw JSONL data for cain't meaning in All languages combined (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.