Crossword-Solution: WAIF 4 letters, 104 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Waif	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.
Waif	n.	Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.
Waif	n.	A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.

We have 104 clues for the answer “WAIF”

Clue	Answers
"Look" embodied by Kate Moss	1 answer
"Oliver Twist" type	1 answer
Abandoned tot	1 answer
Child in a Dickens novel, often	1 answer
Child such as Oliver Twist	1 answer
Concern of the UNICEF.	1 answer
Cosette in "Les Misérables," for one	1 answer
Cosette, e.g., in "Les Misérables"	1 answer
Descriptor for many a supermodel	1 answer
Dickensian child	1 answer
Dickensian child, often	1 answer
Dog without a collar, e.g.	1 answer
Forsaken child	1 answer
Homeless kid	1 answer
Homeless tot	1 answer
Homeless youngster	1 answer
Jo in Dickens' "Bleak House," e.g.	1 answer
Kate Moss portrayal	1 answer
Kate Moss type	1 answer
Kate Moss's persona in the 1990s	1 answer
Kate Moss, e.g.	1 answer
Little Gavroche, for example.	1 answer
Little Orphan Annie or Oliver Twist	1 answer
Little Orphan Annie or Oliver Twist, e.g.	1 answer
Little lost boy.	1 answer
Little nomad	1 answer
Little wanderer	1 answer
Lost child.	1 answer
Many a Dickens child	1 answer
Many a Dickensian child	1 answer
Many a child in Dickens	1 answer
Model persona	1 answer
Neglected child	1 answer
Oliver Twist, for example	1 answer
Oliver, for one	1 answer
One in need of nutrition	1 answer
One without a home	1 answer
Orphan of the storm	1 answer
Orphaned child	1 answer
Runway frequenter	1 answer
Runway model, often	1 answer
Scrawny model	1 answer
Stray Calf catcher	1 answer
Stray and homeless child	1 answer
Stray article.	1 answer
Stray bit	1 answer
Stray child	1 answer
Stray thing.	1 answer
Thin, unhealthy-looking sort	1 answer
Thin-as-Twiggy model	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ERAET

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with WAIF (5)

The White Ape Tenderly Kala nursed her little waif, wondering silently why it did not gain strength and agility as did the little apes of other mothers.

Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Then, too, there was the mute appeal of this wee waif alone and unloved in the midst of the horrors of the savage jungle.

The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

The white man’s wife, whom Meriem had christened “My Dear” from having first heard her thus addressed by Bwana, took not only a deep interest in the little jungle waif because of her forlorn and friendless state, but grew to love her as well for her sunny disposition and natural charm of temperament.

The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Four years or more, from 1837 to 1841, he struggled on, in New Bedford, sawing wood, rolling casks, or doing what labor he might, to support himself and young family; four years he brooded over the scars which slavery and semi-slavery had inflicted upon his body and soul; and then, with his wounds yet unhealed, he fell among the Garrisonians—a glorious waif to those most ardent reformers.

My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1995

Maybe you've seen me sometimes; maybe you've pitied me then-- The lonely waif of the wood-camp, here by my cabin door.

Ballads of a Cheechako Robert W. Service 2008

Quotes with WAIF (3)

Money is representative, and follows the nature and fortunes of the owner... The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason. It is no waif to him. He knows how many strokes of labor it represents. His bones ache with the days' work that earned it. He knows how much land it represents - how much rain, frost and sunshine. He knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience, so much hoeing and threshing. Try to lift his dollar; you must lift all tha…

Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was one of those decisions that shouldn't have been so easy to get so wrong. Go on your own or take the half wasted waif. She was wearing denim hotpants with a pink vest top, and was hanging off his arm, more for stability than closeness, so he propped her up against the wall next to the counter and reached inside his coat pocket for his badge. It was definitely his badge, he clearly remembered stealing it two years before whilst in California.

Dylan Perry Gods Just Want To Have Fun

The Queen is controlling, the Witch is sadistic, the Hermit is fearful, and the Waif is helpless. And each requires a different approach. Don't let the Queen get the upper hand; be wary even of accepting gifts because it engenders expectations. Don't internalize the Hermit's fears or become limited by them. Don't allow yourself to be alone with the Witch; maintain distance for your own emotional and physical safety. And with the Waif, don't get pulled into her crises and sens…

Christine Ann Lawson Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 106 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).