Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal reduction of ha'n't, a contraction of have not and has not. Also written ain't, aint, like hain't, haint.
- noun A colloquial contraction of an it, if it. See
an , and. - noun A colloquial contraction of are n't, are not, and of am not, and with greater license also of is not. In the second pronunciation also written
ain't or aint.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- possessive noun Colloq. & illiterate speech. A contraction for
are andam not ; also used foris not ; -- now usually writtenain't .
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- phrase dialect , (
archaic ) shortening ofamn’t , fromam not - phrase dialect , (
archaic ) respelling ofaren’t , fromare not , in some non-rhotic dialects - phrase dialect , (
archaic ) variant ofisn’t , fromis not
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Examples
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Course I an't never hunted seal and you likely do every season, so I will fess my ignorance here.
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Course I an't never hunted seal and you likely do every season, so I will fess my ignorance here.
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After the hearings are over, I c an't wait to congratulate her on her appointment for the Supreme Court, as I know she will be approved.
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Edwards makes me sick glad he an't president voting for Mcain if Hillary does not make it.
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I an't sure bout all these high fluting folks neither. uns need to get on down to the voten parlor and vote fer Henllary and Bill.
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Think about that song in Dreamgirl where Hudson song "I an't going no where" in a sense – she was pitful begging to hold on when they told her it was all over.
Clinton reviewing 'options' - but says superdelegates could shift
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Aren't I became the standard form in British English, and an't I very popular in the 1800s gradually fell out of use.
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I wound up takin the mule back and given him half a box of thruderheads bullets to hep out on his gas. he said i would here from his lawyer but I an't scart cause raphie went to the kommuniti colege and got a dgree in criminal justis so he can handle it if he gets out in time.
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Aren't I became the standard form in British English, and an't I very popular in the 1800s gradually fell out of use.
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Clinton's campaign is inevitably messed up tactically and strategically and the country an't buying what you are selling.
minerva commented on the word an't
=am not. See also ain't.
December 9, 2007