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Ahind vs Ahint - What's the difference?

ahind | ahint |

As prepositions the difference between ahind and ahint

is that ahind is (dialect) behind while ahint is behind.

As an adverb ahint is

behind.

ahind

English

Preposition

(English prepositions)
  • (dialect) behind
  • * {{quote-book, year=1841, author=Various, title=Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, October 9, 1841, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="You see, sir," said Mr. Smear, "that wherever that ere water has been it's left a dampness ahind it; the moistur' consekent upon such a dampness must be evaporated by ever-so-many applications of the warming-pan. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1869, author=Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, title=Men, Women, and Ghosts, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Watch was drunk; I crawled down ahind the whiskey. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1871, author=Edward Eggleston, title=The Hoosier Schoolmaster, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="But, you see, he's been and gone and pulled back the board that you have to step on to git ahind your desk; he's been and gone and pulled back the board so as you can't help a-tippin' it up, and a-sowsin' right in ef you step there." }}

    ahint

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • behind

    • Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • behind
  • *1827 , Allan's Tyneside Songs:
    • ahint the coonter he sat i' the shop
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