What does haint mean?
Haint means (US, dialectal) Alternative form of haunt..
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/heɪnt/ · verb
(US, dialectal) Alternative form of haunt..
Looking from juror to juror and seeking out the smug faces of the witnesses who'd testified against him, he repeated his threat. "Those who say I kilt anybody are liars," he proclaimed. "And each of you will be hainted every day for the rest of your life. Then the devil will have ye."
After he killed him, Ed came back and he didn't have no head and he hainted [haunted] Ole Master until he died himself — getting in his way all the time — Ole Ed would be right there with him.
“I just don't think it happened that way,” he argued. “Otherwise, the ghost wouldn't still be hainting the tree.”
"Ain't you scared of haints?"
I got a tree on my back and a haint in my house, and nothing in between but the daughter I am holding in my arms.
It didn't take long for word to spread that there was a "haint" in the graveyard. A haint is what the old-timers called a ghost.
My dead grandpa's haint floated above my bed one night when I was a young'un and scared me so bad I busted the bedroom door down tryin' to get out that room so fast.
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Haint means (US, dialectal) Alternative form of haunt..
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Looking from juror to juror and seeking out the smug faces of the witnesses who'd testified against him, he repeated his threat. "Those who say I kilt anybody are liars," he proclaimed. "And each of you will be hainted every day for the rest of your life. Then the devil will have ye."
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