Definitions for waifs

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waifs waif

Spelling: [weyf]

IPA: /weɪf/

Waifs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in waifs (afisw).

Definitions for waifs

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 waifs

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 waifs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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