han't

See also: hant, hánt, háñt, hänt, hånt, ha'n't, and ha'nt

English

Alternative forms

• ha'n't

Contraction

han't

1. (Yorkshire, otherwise archaic) Haven't; hasn't.
   • 2023, Sally Wainwright, 26:09 from the start, in Happy Valley, season 3, episode 2, spoken by Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire):

     They can't launder fast enough, so what do you do with it? Where do you put it? You hide it in somebody else's place; somebody who han't got a clue what's going on and couldn't do a fat lot about it if they did.

Usage notes

• In many varieties of modern English, han't continues in colloquial usage with a vowel change and dropped h, as ain't.

Anagrams

• -anth, Hnat, Nath, Than, tahn, than