Haint

southern colloquialism
def., ghost, apparition, lost soul
on his way back from mobile my friend was killed on bl–dy 98, and now he’s just another restless haint.
chiefly southern u.s. var of haunt, originally, but the meaning has since morephed to mean more than a ghost. it can also mean a scary b-tch or mean person, usually a woman.
i tried to kill her with kindness, but that haint is just full up with meanness.
a ghost; a haunt; a spirit.
she was terrified of the haint that kept showing itself to her at midnight.
in west virginia it’s a ghost
it’s halloween; watch out for the boogers, witches,and haints
noun,

1. a hateful b-tch.

2. a truly heinous she-devil so brutal that anachronistic and unusual colloquial slang is called for.
that haint never leaves a tip and still has a george w. bush sticker on the back of her pink hummer.
in western north carolina, a haint is a ghost, a spook, but not the booger man.
it’s so dark outside you can’t see a haint. – from my aunt ethel wallace nee lawing, born north carolina ca. 1895
a contraction of have/has not. it arose in the 1800s in the american south, and it’s prevalent in mark twain literature. it’s still used some by old people and really rural people, but it’s largely a dead phenomenon.
-i hain’t been anywhere today.
-hain’t you got anything better to do?

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