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waif

/weyf/US // weɪf //UK // (weɪf) //

娃儿,流浪者,娃儿们,流浪汉

Related Words

castaway逃亡者,逃亡的人,遗弃者,冒险者stray流浪者,流浪汉,流浪的,流浪动物ragamuffin褴褛蓬松,褴褛蓬松的人,褴褛蓬松者,褴褛小人urchin顽童,胆小鬼,顽石,海胆foundling弃儿,创始者,弃婴,孤儿drop下降,跌落,掉落,滴orphan孤儿,遗孤,孤家寡人,鳏夫flotsam水草,水草丛生,泥沙,水草丛中fetch取,取得,取来,获取jetsam喷雾剂,喷气机,喷雾器,喷射器dogie小狗,狗仔,狗狗,狗仔队

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounlost or unclaimed person or thing
Synonyms
castaway逃亡者,逃亡的人,遗弃者,冒险者dogie小狗,狗仔,狗狗,狗仔队drop下降,跌落,掉落,滴fetch取,取得,取来,获取flotsam水草,水草丛生,泥沙,水草丛中foundling弃儿,创始者,弃婴,孤儿jetsam喷雾剂,喷气机,喷雾器,喷射器orphan孤儿,遗孤,孤家寡人,鳏夫ragamuffin褴褛蓬松,褴褛蓬松的人,褴褛蓬松者,褴褛小人stray流浪者,流浪汉,流浪的,流浪动物urchin顽童,胆小鬼,顽石,海胆homeless one无家可归的人,无家可归者,无家可归的一个,无家可归的一个人

Examples

  • 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.

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