'taint, v.2
(teɪnt)
Also taint, t'ain't, etc.
Dial. and vulg. contraction of it ain't: see ain't v.; 't.
| 1839 [see snum v.]. 1859 A. J. Symonds Let. Sept. (1967) I. 206 You will think I am fallen desperately in love. Yet it taint so. 1919 W. Deeping Second Youth xxiii. 194 'Taint like 'im. 'E used to be sensible. 1942 Z. N. Hurston in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 225/1 'T'ain't nothing to you, nohow. 1974 H. R. F. Keating Underside viii. 77 ‘I'm sure whatever they say's undeserved.’ ‘No, t'ain't. You ninny.’ |