waif
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noun- 1.
(British, archaic)(British, law, archaic) An article of movable property which has been found, and of which the owner is not known, such as goods washed up on a beach or thrown away by an absconding thief; such items belong to the Crown, which may grant the right of ownership to them to a lord of a manor.
waifs and strays
- 2.
(figuratively)Something found, especially if without an owner; something which comes along, as it were, by chance.
- 3.
(figuratively)A person (especially a child) who is homeless and without means of support; also, a person excluded from society; an outcast.
Đồng nghĩa: bum, stiff, casual, clochard, derelict, dero, down-and-out, down-and-outer, drifter, epithite, floater, gadling, hobo, Jack out of doors, knight of the road, landleaper, landloper, landlouper, nomad, paker, palliard, pike, piker, ranger, rogue, rolling stone, rough sleeper, scatterling, skelder, skell, stroller, stumblebum, swagman, swaggie, toerag, tramp, truant, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, waif, yagger
- 4.
(broadly, figuratively)A very thin person, especially a young one.
Đồng nghĩa: thin person
- 5.
(broadly, figuratively)A plant introduced in a place outside its native range but not persistently naturalized.
- 6.
(historical)(nautical, chiefly whaling, historical) A small flag used as a signal.
- 7.
Something (such as clouds or smoke) carried aloft by the wind.
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To cast aside or reject, and thus make a waif.
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ine-pro The noun is derived from Late Middle English weif, from waif, weif (compare Anglo-Latin waivum, waivium), possibly from Old French waif, a variant of gaif, gayf Normanguaif, probably from a - source such as Old Norse veif (flag; waving thing), from Proto-Germanic *waif-, from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (to oscillate, swing).