All waif synonyms

noun waif

• stray — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
• soul — the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
• urchin — a mischievous boy.
• orphan — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
• ragamuffin — a ragged, disreputable person; tatterdemalion.
• castaway — A castaway is a person who has managed to swim or float to a lonely island or shore after their boat has sunk.
• dogie — a motherless calf in a cattle herd.
• drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
• fetch — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
• flotsam — the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan.
• foundling — an infant or small child found abandoned; a child without a known parent or guardian.
• jetsam — goods cast overboard deliberately, as to lighten a vessel or improve its stability in an emergency, which sink where jettisoned or are washed ashore.