See haint on Wiktionary
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Then the devil will have ye.\"", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2003, Winson Hudson, Derrick Bell, Constance Curry, Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter, page 17:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2003, W. 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Then the devil will have ye.\"", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2003, Winson Hudson, Derrick Bell, Constance Curry, Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter, page 17:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2003, W. Bruce Wingo, There Grows a Crooked Tree, page 92:", "text": "“I just don't think it happened that way,” he argued. “Otherwise, the ghost wouldn't still be hainting the tree.”", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of haunt" ], "links": [ [ "haunt", "haunt#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(US, dialectal) Alternative form of haunt" ], "tags": [ "US", "alt-of", "alternative", "dialectal" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/heɪnt/" }, { "rhymes": "-eɪnt" } ], "word": "haint" } { "categories": [ "Appalachian English", "English contractions", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English non-lemma forms", "English nouns", "English verbs", "Pages with 4 entries", "Pages with entries", "Rhymes:English/eɪnt", "Rhymes:English/eɪnt/1 syllable", "cy:Pathology", "en:Ghosts" ], "derived": [ { "word": "haint blue" } ], "etymology_number": 1, "forms": [ { "form": "haints", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "haint (plural haints)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "word": "ha'nt" }, { "word": "hant" }, { "word": "harnt" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "American English", "English dialectal terms", "English terms with quotations", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "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:", "text": "\"Ain't you scared of haints?\"", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, page 18:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2005, Eulie Rowan, “The Four-Legged Haint”, in The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs, Simon and Schuster, page 106:", "text": "It didn't take long for word to spread that there was a \"haint\" in the graveyard. 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