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English
Contraction
han't
- (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.
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