waif 的定义
- a person, especially a child, who has no home or friends.
- something found, especially a stray animal, whose owner is not known.
- a very thin, often small person, usually a young woman.
- a stray item or article: to gather waifs of gossip.
- Nautical. waft.
waif 近义词
lost or unclaimed person or thing
更多waif例句
- Ann is an opera singer, fragile and captivating onstage, somewhere between waif and warrior.
- Her scruffy waif look was as far as possible from the sophisticated luxury of her childhood.
- A tiny quiver of the eyelids, and a tremor through the thin hands and Mysie—poor ruined broken waif of the world—was gone.
- I have heard a waif word in the country,” said I, a little nettled, “that you were a hard man to drive.
- My waif was curled up in my kimono, feeding my fan-tailed goldfish.
- You were a little waif, fed cake and tea at the millionaire's table.
- Woman, divorced from home, wanders unfriended like a waif upon the wave.