hant

¹ American  

[hant] / hænt /

Or ha'nt

verb (used with or without object)

South Midland and Southern U.S.

1. haunt.

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han't ² American  

[heynt] / heɪnt /

Older Use.

1. a contraction of has not.

2. a contraction of have not.

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Example Sentences

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 This Henry Broadnax, Sofia say.

From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

He look at Sofia like she a hant.

From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

Here, too, wuz the hant of that immortal bird, the Phenix, who raised himself to life every five hundred years.

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta

"Yes, course I do, Lem—but—but they's a hant in em."

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett