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waifs and strays

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waifs - and - strays -> waifs and strays

Myanmar meaning

(n) လေလွင့်ကလေးသူငယ်။

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waif /weÇf/ n

(က) ပိန်ပိန်ပါးပါးကလေး။ She's such a poor little waif — I don't think she eats enough.
(ခ) ခိုကိုးရာမဲ့ ကလေး (သို့) ပိုင်ရှင်မဲ့ တိရစ္ဆာန်။ a kindly old lady who takes in waifs and strays.
❏ waiflike adj ခိုကိုးရာမဲ့။ ပါးလှပ်လှပ်။ a small waiflike figure.
❏ waifs and strays n လေလွင့်ကလေးသူငယ်။

Synonyms
stray, soul, thing, urchin, orphan, waifs and strays, castaway, dogie, drop, fetch, flotsam, foundling, homeless one, jetsam, ragamuffin
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straysoulthingurchinorphanwaifs and strayscastawaydogiedropfetchflotsamfoundlinghomeless onejetsamragamuffinanddon'tenoughfigureladylittleoldpoorsheshe'ssmallsuchthink
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