Waif

[weɪf] or [wef]

解釋/意思:

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

安編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

亚历山大校對

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Estray.

校對:弗恩

解釋/意思:

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

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