Clues for the word "WAIF"
We've had 61 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 154 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on May 27, 2026.
Definition of 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.
- 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.
Referring Clues
- Gamin
- Street urchin
- Stray animal
- Homeless child
- Stray
- Ragamuffin
- Oliver Twist, e.g.
- Little Orphan Annie or Oliver Twist
- Forsaken child
- Oliver Twist, for one
- Gamine
- Kate Moss, e.g.
- Model persona
- Orphaned child
- Foundling
- Kate Moss type
- Very thin model, e.g.
- Small child
- Child of the streets
- Stray child
- Homeless kid
- Scrawny model
- Homeless youngster
- Descriptor for many a supermodel
- "Look" embodied by Kate Moss
- Cosette, e.g., in "Les Misérables"
- Twiggy's look in '60s fashion
- Little Orphan Annie or Oliver Twist, e.g.
- Runway frequenter
- Kate Moss's persona in the 1990s
- Urchin
- Jo in Dickens' "Bleak House," e.g.
- Stray calf
- Dickensian child
- Orphan
- Thin-as-Twiggy model
- Very thin model
- The ___ look (stick-skinny fashion trend)
- Dickensian child, often
- Abandoned child
- Homeless child - thin person
- Neglected or orphaned child
- Neglected child
- Neglected, homeless child
- Washington provided for homeless child
- Homeless (very thin) child
- Many a Dickens child
- Neglected child in Washington Irving's first folio
- Homeless or neglected child
- Young stray
- Little Orphan Annie, e.g.
- "Oliver Twist" type
- Oliver Twist, for example
- Many a Dickensian child
- Not to be confused with a stray?
- Victor Hugo's Cosette, e.g.
- Thin, unhealthy-looking sort
- Urchin, perhaps
- Homeless tot
- Many a child in Dickens
- Dickens's Oliver Twist, for one
Last Seen In
- New York Times - May 27, 2026
- Daily Quick - May 27, 2026
- Daily American - July 25, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 28, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 13, 2024
- LA Times - November 12, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 05, 2024
- LA Times - July 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - June 21, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 26, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 29, 2024
- Family Time - March 18, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 06, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 03, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 01, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 27, 2024
- Your Life Choices - November 27, 2023
- Daily American - July 25, 2023
- New York Times - June 20, 2023
- New York Times - April 16, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - March 20, 2023
- Family Time - January 15, 2023
- Your Life Choices - November 30, 2022
- LA Times - November 05, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - October 23, 2022
- And in 124 more crossword puzzles...