Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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. - 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.
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 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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.
Obama uses his White House e-mail list to praise Sotomayor 2009
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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.
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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.
Archive 2009-07-01 DC 2009
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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.
On aren't I DC 2009
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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