waif
waif
englantikatulapsi
Synonyymisanakirja
waif
lapsi, lapsukainen, tenava, alaikäinen, pikkumies, muksu, napero, ipana, vintiö, vekara, kersa, pentu, nassikka, penska, skidi, nuori ihminen, nuorukainen, katulapsi.
Englannin sanakirja
waif englanniksi
1912: (w), (w), Chapter 5
puhekieltä A plant that has been introduced but is not persistently naturalized.
puhekieltä 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.
puhekieltä Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.