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▪ I. an't|ɑːnt| contraction of are n't, are not; colloquially for am not; and in illiterate or dialect speech for is not, has not (han't). A later and still more illiterate form is aint, q.v.
1706E. Ward Hud. Rediv. (1711) I. i. 24 But if your Eyes a'n't quick of Motion, They'll play the Rogue, that gave the Caution. 1734Fielding Old Man 1007/1 Ha, ha, ha! an't we? no! How ignorant it is! 1737― Hist. Reg. i. i, No more I an't, sir. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr. (1873) 69 No, that a'nt it, says he. 1828Lytton Pelham lxii. (1853) 172 A'n't we behind hand? 1864Tennyson North. Farmer xiii, A mowt 'a taäken Joänes, as 'ant a 'aäpoth o' sense. ▪ II. † an't Obs.|ənt| Variant of on't, properly ‘on it,’ but frequently, in 16th c. and still dialectally, as = o't ‘of it.’ See on.
1589Pappe w. Hatchet (1844) 23 At least three figures in that line, besides, the wit ant. 1589Shakes. L.L.L. (Qo.) v. ii. 460, I see the tricke ant! |