Hant
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hant is a noun meaning (Scotland, US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of haunt, haint (“ghost”).
Meaning
(Scotland, US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of haunt, haint (“ghost”).
More Meanings
- (US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular) To haunt.
- Pronunciation spelling of hadn’t.
Example Sentences
“[…] Say, Mister, did you ever see a hant?” The gentleman did not understand. “A hant, a ghost, some calls ’em,” explained Jed.
The term “hant” covers all malevolent and inexplicable sights and sounds. Primarily hants protect buried treasure and linger about ghoulish death spots.
[…] 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.
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.
Word Forms
- hants
- hanting
- hanted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ha'nt, harnt, bhut, haitch, boggart, alant.
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