Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - ain’t
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Etymology: contraction of are not Date: 1749 1. am not ; are not ; is not 2. have not ; has not 3. do not ; does not ; did not — used in some varieties of Black English Usage: Although widely disapproved as nonstandard and more common in the habitual speech of the less educated, ~ in senses 1 and 2 is flourishing in American English. It is used in both speech and writing to catch attention and to gain emphasis the wackiness of movies, once so deliciously amusing, ~ funny anymore — Richard Schickel I am telling you—there ~ going to be any blackmail — R. M. Nixon. It is used especially in journalistic prose as part of a consistently informal style the creative process ~ easy — Mike Royko. This informal ~ is commonly distinguished from habitual ~ by its frequent occurrence in fixed constructions and phrases well—class it ~ — Cleveland Amory for money? say it ~ so, Jimmy! — Andy Rooney you ~ seen nothing yet that ~ hay two out of three ~ bad if it ~ broke, don't fix it. In fiction ~ is used for purposes of characterization; in familiar correspondence it tends to be the mark of a warm personal friendship. It is also used for metrical reasons in popular songs Ain't She Sweet It Ain't Necessarily So. Our evidence shows British use to be much the same as American. ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
contr. colloq. 1 am not; are not; is not (you ain't doing it right; she ain't nice). 2 has not; have not (we ain't seen him). Usage Usually regarded as an uneducated use, and unacceptable in spoken and written English, except to represent dialect speech. Etymology: contr. of are not ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. простореч. сокр. от am not I ain't coming —- я не приду I'm going to get well, ain't I? —- я поправлюсь, правда? 2. простореч. сокр. от is not; are not; has not; have not it ain't necessarily so —- это не обязательно так they ain't got it —- у их этого нет ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
4.
~ spoken a short form of `am not', `is not', `are not', `has not', or `have not', that many people think is incorrect ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
5.
- 1706, originally a contraction of am not, and in proper use with that sense until it began to be used as a generic contraction for are not, is not, etc., early 19c., which led to it being banished from correct English. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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