haint
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Is haint a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
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- Wordle Yes
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (US, dialectal) Alternative form of haunt.Examples: "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.”"USalt-ofalternativedialectal
noun (English)
1. (US, dialectal) A ghost; a supernatural being; Alternative form of haunt.Examples: ""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."USdialectal
contraction (English)
1. (dialectal) Alternative form of ain't.alt-ofalternativecontractiondialectal
Definition source: Wiktionary