Sc. Also waufie. [f. WAFF a. + -IE.] A worthless person, a vagabond.
1808. Jamieson, Waffie, a vagabond.
1818. Blackw. Mag., Feb., 524/2. Gypsies have actually among themselves outcasts and vagabonds … by them termed waffies.
1896. ‘Ian Maclaren,’ Kate Carnegie, xxi. 353. A’ the waufies in the countryside come here.
