bain't

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bain't

  1. (UK, dialect) be not
    • 1871, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native:
      "I aint afeard at all, I thank God!" said Christian strenuously. "I'm glad I bain't, for then 'twon't pain me... I don't think I be afeard—or if I be I can't help it, and I don't deserve to suffer. I wish I was not afeard at all!"
    • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 51:
      "Bain't you glad that we've become gentlefolk?"

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