aint
Colloquial negative word
Aint is a nonstandard spelling of ain't, itself a contraction of "am not," "is not," "are not," "has not," or "have not." The spelling without the apostrophe appears in dialect writing and informal contexts: I aint going nowhere.
Both forms are stigmatized in formal English but widespread in casual speech across many dialects.
vernacular
Informal in-group vocabulary
- colloquialCasual, everyday language
- dialectRegional language variety
- nonstandardDeparting from established norms
- informalRelaxed, not official
spoken · casual · folksy · drawl · twang · Southern · rural · Appalachian
slang
Informal in-group vocabulary
- colloquialCasual, everyday language
- dialectRegional language variety
- nonstandardDeparting from established norms
informal · spoken · casual · folksy · drawl · twang · Southern · rural · Appalachian · working-class
won't
Contraction showing refusal
nope · nah · refusal · denial · nothing · none · never · neither · nobody · nowhere
- dialect featuresregionalism, localism, colloquialism, vernacular, patois
- dialectal expressionsyall, howdy, reckon, fixin to, yonder
- regionalismsyouse, fixin' to, fixing to, bless your heart, howdy
- grammar debatesirregardless, split infinitive, singular they, could of, would of
- spellingscolour, color, favour, favor, honour
- dialectsregional dialect, local dialect, patois, vernaculars, vernacular
- ain't got
- Ain't No SunshineSoul song about absence
- this ain't it, chiefSarcastic dismissal of failure