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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(Scotland, US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of haunt, haint (“ghost”).
“[…] Say, Mister, did you ever see a hant?” The gentleman did not understand. “A hant, a ghost, some calls ’em,” explained Jed.
[…] he shivered as though a hant had touched him with its ghostly fingers, for night was near and he was alone in a depth of the swamp where he had never been before.
The term “hant” covers all malevolent and inexplicable sights and sounds. Primarily hants protect buried treasure and linger about ghoulish death spots.
Naturally, I believed in hants and ghosts and “thangs.” Having been raised by a super-religious Southern Negro grandmother, it would have been abnormal had I not been superstitious.
Use hant when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hant means (Scotland, US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of haunt, haint (“ghost”).
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
“[…] Say, Mister, did you ever see a hant?” The gentleman did not understand. “A hant, a ghost, some calls ’em,” explained Jed.
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