Waif

[weɪf] or [wef]

解释:

(noun.) a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned; 'street children beg or steal in order to survive'.

安编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice.

(n.) Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.

(n.) A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.

亚历山大校对

同义词及近义词：

n. Estray.

校对:弗恩

解释:

n. a stray article: anything found astray without an owner: a worthless wanderer.—adj. vagabond worthless.

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