| 释义 |
bain't, v.|beɪnt|
[See be v. I. 1 e (b), h β, and ain't v.]
Repr. dial. (chiefly Midlands and W. Country) form of the verb to be (present indicative, all persons) + not: ‘am not’ (also ‘is not’), ‘are not’.
1853‘C. Bede’ Adventures Verdant Green viii. 73 ‘Bain't you well, sir?’ repeated Mr. Filcher. 1857C. M. Yonge Dynevor Terr. I. iii. 29 The candles baint so good as they used, and I can't get no spectacles to suit me. 1876― Three Brides xxv. 368 He was born in one of they vans..just like the gipsies, though he baint a gipsy neither. 1919S. Weyman Great House xxx. 282 Well, I'm dommed!..It be you, Squire, bain't it? 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 285 Cat my dogs, if I baint dingbushed like everything! 1987A. Puckett Blood Stains xvi. 169 ‘I want to speak to John Hill.’..‘Bain't no such person yurr.’ |