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▪ I. ain't, v.1 dial. and colloq.|eɪnt|
[A contracted form of are not (see an't), used also for am not, is not, in the pop. dialect of London and elsewhere; hence in representations of Cockney speech in Dickens, etc.,and subsequently in general informal use. The contraction is also found as a (somewhat outmoded) upper-class colloquialism. Cf. wōn't, dōn't, cân't, shân't.]
1778F. Burney Evelina (1873) I. xxi. 87 Those you are engaged to ain't half so near related to you as we are. 1829Lamb Life & Lett. (1860) I. 348 An't you glad about Burk's case? 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. 12 ‘You seem to have a good sister,’ ‘She ain't half bad.’ 1873C. H. Smith Bill Arp's Peace Papers 201, I thought I was but I aint. 1875Trollope Prime Minister I. xiii. 203, I ain't thinking of her marrying. I don't want her to marry. 1898Eng. Dial. Dict. I. 198/2 Aint ah or am ah nūt? 1919Mencken Amer. Lang. 146 Ain't is already tolerably respectable in the first person..‘ain't I in this?’ 1938V. Woolf Let. 3 Oct. (1980) VI. 278, I believe politics will bring L..to London. And I've not the spirit to pack up and go without him. Ain't I a craven? 1959W. Miller Cool World 8, I aint paying that kind of bread.
▪ II. ain't, v.2 dial. and vulg.|eɪnt|
var. hain't, have not, has not.
1845Simms Wigwam & Cabin Ser. i. 7 But you ain't said,..who was your Carolina gineral. 1875in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Have v. I. ii. 1880Tourgée Fool's Err. ii. x. 473, I ain't done nothing. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn. xxxv. 360 He ain't had no experience. 1887M. E. Wilkins Humble Romance 3 You've been crying, ain't you? 1910W. M. Raine B. O'Connor iii. 37 We ain't got one chance in a hundred, Jim. 1914Dialect Notes IV. 70 He ain't got sense enough to carry guts to a bear. 1917C. Mathewson Sec. Base Sloan xiv. 195 More than that I ain't got the right to say. 1940W. Faulkner Hamlet i. i. 15 He is going to charge Ab twenty bushels of corn for it against his crop that Ab ain't even planted yet. 1959W. Miller Cool World 8 That piece aint been worth no fifteen dollas since you was a little boy Priest. |