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ain’t1 auxiliary verb, verb = am not, is not, are not.
1864 Poteet CW Letters (Aug 19) I am thankful that I aint in this fight. 1890 Fruit KY Words 67 aint = for am not, is not, are not, as “I aint goin’”; “He aint goin’”; “We or you aint goin’.” Well nigh universally used here and farther south. 1939 Hall Coll (Hazel Creek NC) They ain’t one dog in a hundred would run a panther. 1955 Ritchie Singing Family 184 Don’t look so all-fired mad, I ain’t going to ask you to shoot yer granny. 1971 Foster Walker Valley 3:9 You take a fellow with ten brothers and sisters—he ain’t a gonna get lonesome. 2009 Burton Beech Mt Man 94 If you get in them bars, it’s rock and roll anymore—ain’t bluegrass or nothin’, ain’t even country.
ain’t2 auxiliary verb = has not, have not.
1861 Sutton CW Letters (Oct 17) I aint got time to write anymore at this time. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 355 “Borned in the kentry and ain’t never been out o’ it” is all that most of them can say for themselves. 1939 Hall Coll (Cades Cove TN) I ain't never been north. 1941 Stuart Men of Mts 68 Well it ain’t allus been a wilderness. 1973 GSMNP-87:2:2 We ain’t figured that out yet. 1998 Dante OHP-61 I ain’t got a thing agin the union.