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

The ghost stories — or “hant stories,” as they were colloquially called — were part of a belief system that, as the historian Lawrence Levine argued, prevented “legal slavery from being spiritual slavery.”

From New York Times

“You looks like a hant. You git in bed and I’ll fix you a toddy and see kin you sleep. I bet you aint had a full night’s sleep since you lef.”

From Literature

He look at Sofia like she a hant.

From Literature

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

From Literature

The original stands thus:— S� tr�te s�ne hende mit ir vil w�zen hant, Unz er vor ir augen, sine wesse wenne, verswant, literally, "She fondled his hands with her very white hand, till he before her eyes, she knew not when, vanished."

From Project Gutenberg