Taint vs Haint - What's the difference?
taint | haint |
A (l), (l) or (l), especially in (l)
A mark of (l), especially on one's (l); blemish
(obsolete) tincture; hue; colour
(obsolete) infection; corruption; deprivation
To (l) or (l) (something) with an external (l), either (l) or (l).
* Shakespeare
To (l) (food) by (l).
To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
* Shakespeare
To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
A (l) with a (l), which fails of its intended (l).
An (l) done to a (l) in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a (l) or unscientific manner.
To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
* Massinger
To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
* Ld. Berners
To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
(slang) The (l).
* 2000 June 17, "Marc Newman" (username), "
* 2005 July 14, "Noodles Jefferson" (username), "
* 2010 February 22, "Duchamanos" (username), "
(US, dialectal)
* 1988 , Randy Russell, Janet Barnett, Dead Dan's Shadow on the Wall'', in ''Mountain Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of Western North Carolina ,
* 2003 , Winson Hudson, Derrick Bell, Constance Curry, Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter ,
* 2003 , W. Bruce Wingo, There Grows a Crooked Tree ,
(US, dialectal) Ghost.
* 2005', "The Four-Legged '''Haint " by Eulie Rowan, in ''The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs , Simon and Schuster,
* 2009 , Mary Monroe, God Still Don't Like Ugly'',
As nouns the difference between taint and haint
is that taint is a (l), (l) or (l), especially in (l) or taint can be a (l) with a (l), which fails of its intended (l) or taint can be (slang) the (l) while haint is (us|dialectal) ghost.As verbs the difference between taint and haint
is that taint is to (l) or (l) (something) with an external (l), either (l) or (l) or taint can be to damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner while haint is (us|dialectal).As a contraction haint is
(lb).taint
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tingere, tinctum via (etyl) teint (past participle of )Noun
(en noun)- He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous taint , which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove. — Macaulay.
Verb
(en verb)- His unkindness may defeat my life, / But never taint my love.
- I cannot taint with fear.
- Meat soon taints in warm weather.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare with attaint.Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Do not fear; I have / A staff to taint , and bravely.
- They tainted each other on the helms and passed by.
Etymology 3
Reportedly from the phrase “ your balls and 'tain't your ass”.Noun
(en noun)Re: Americas are overated", in talk.politics.guns, Usenet :
- Sorry you feel that way. But since your mother sucks cocks in hell if I go there I won't be rotting.....I'll be on line right behind you hoping to get another good head job from your Mom or Sister....if you can remember which is which.......(Moms the one with the beard on her taint )
Re: My Wife's Raw Comments", in rec.sport.pro-wrestling, Usenet :
- Even her taint
's raw?
Re: Huck Finn 2010-anyone going?", in rec.sport.disc, Usenet :
- Did you know that guy has absolutely no tan lines? He'll show his taint to prove it!
Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l)haint
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(en verb)page 5,
- 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."
page 17,
- 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.
page 92,
- “I just don't think it happened that way,” he argued. “Otherwise, the ghost wouldn't still be hainting the tree.”
Noun
(en noun)p. 106:
- 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.
page 211,
- My dead grandpa's haint floated above my bed one night when I was a young'un and scared me so bad I busted the bedroom door down tryin' to get out that room so fast.
