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Waff a. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Waff a. Sc. Also waf, wauf. [var. of WAIF a.]

1   1.  Of an animal: Wandering, stray. Also of a person: ‘Solitary’; said ‘of one who is in a strange place where he has not a single acquaintance’ (Jam., 1808).

2 1720.  Ramsay, Patie & Roger, 127. She … then bade me hound my Dog To weer up three waff Ews were on the Bog.

3 1776.  Herd’s Coll. Sc. Songs, II. Gloss., Waff, wandering by itself.

4   2.  Of a person, condition of life: Of no account, worthless.

5 1788.  Picken, Poems Scot. Dial., 248. Gloss., Waff, little worth.

6 1808.  Jamieson, Waff, Waif, Wayf, adj. … 3: Worthless. A waff fellow, one whose conduct is immoral; or whose character is so bad, that those, who regard their own, will not associate with him.

7 1815.  Scott, Guy M., xxxix. Is not it an odd-like thing that ilka wauf carle in the country has a son and heir, and that the house of Ellangowan is without male succession?

8 1837.  Lockhart, Scott, II. viii. 306, ‘I dinna think there’s a waufer (shabbier) thing in the world than to be a lassie, to sit boring at a clout.’

9 a. 1884.  J. Russell, Remin. Yarrow, i. (1894), 7. A wauf hand [i.e., a bad preacher].

10   b.  Comb.: waff-like a., shabby-looking; having a suspicious or disreputable appearance; feeble, of little account.

11 1808.  Jamieson, Waff-like, one [sic] who has a very shabby or suspicious appearance.

12 1823.  Galt, R. Gilhaize, lxxix. III. 180. Though the folk afore the house are but a wee waff-like.

13 1882.  J. Walker, Jaunt to Auld Reekie, 46. A coat o’ rusty black The wauflike wretch has on his back.

14 1893.  Stevenson, Catriona, xxiii. I came upon a lane of lighted houses, the doors and windows thronged with wauf-like painted women.

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