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    hant
    verb (used with or without object)
  • han't
    han't
    a contraction of has not.

hant

1 American  
[hant] / hænt /
Or ha'nt

verb (used with or without object)

South Midland and Southern U.S.
  1. haunt.


han't 2 American  
[heynt] / heɪnt /
Older Use.
  1. a contraction of has not.

  2. a contraction of have not.


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Culturally the hant monde of Lima is on a par with the similar aristocracy of Madrid, Rome and Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

He look at Sofia like she a hant.

From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

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

From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

I zhall dake noding bood die hant of mein vrients.”

From Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure by Boucher, W.

Dō brāhte man die vrouwen     dā si in ligen vant. si huop sīn schœne houbet     mit ir vil wīȥen hant; dō kuste s’ alsō tōten     den edelen ritter guot.

From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Wright, Joseph

It han’t happened yet, but will on the morrow, says the Doctor.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

I han’t seen a way to get you safe, and I’ve looked arter you to know your ins and outs.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

“Who d’ye live with,—supposin’ you’re kindly let to live, which I han’t made up my mind about?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

“Private Goring, I am indebted in so total—,” and I stopped him, wishing no more Gratitude for doing no more than he had; though I han’t done it to try and Die.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

“I han’t got time to attend to thy mopseys now, what with all this sorbent washing.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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