haint
noun/heɪnt/
- "Ain't you scared of haints?"1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, part 2, page 254:
- 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.1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, page 18:
2 more examples
- 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.2005, Eulie Rowan, “The Four-Legged Haint”, in The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs, Simon and Schuster, page 106:
- 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.2009, Mary Monroe, God Still Don't Like Ugly, page 211:
- Derived terms
- haint blue
- Related terms
- ha'nt, hant, harnt