Definitions for waif

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Spelling: [weyf]

IPA: /weɪf/

Waif is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in waif (afiw).

Definitions for waif

noun

1. a person, especially a child, who has no home or friends.
2. something found, especially a stray animal, whose owner is not known.
3. a very thin, often small person, usually a young woman.
4. a stray item or article:
5. Nautical. waft (def 8).

Origin of waif

1350-1400; Middle English Anglo-French, orig. lost, stray, unclaimed (compare Old French guaif stray beast) Scandinavian; compare Old Norse veif movement to and fro; see

Examples for waif

Mrs. Barry bit her lip and did not love the waif the more that she had been able to defend her.

My husband told me all about your help and your kindness to our waif.

Edwin said she should be called waif, and waif she was ever after called in that house.

My waif was curled up in my kimono, feeding my fan-tailed goldfish.

I have become a rover and a waif, and I feel as lighthearted as a boy.

waif, who was slowly recovering, grew pathetically fond of his rescuer.

When he took refuge in the Vatican he must have been clinging to some waif and stray of hope.

Meanwhile we has a good chance to inspect this waif that's been sort of wished on us.

I am such a waif and stray everywhere, that I am liable to be drifted where any current may set.'

Sitting in the sheets, I turned over in my mind all that this waif had said.