castaway vs waif

castaway

noun
  • An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society. 

  • A discarded person or thing. 

  • A shipwrecked sailor. 

adj
  • Cast adrift or ashore; marooned. 

  • Shipwrecked. 

  • Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group. 

waif

noun
  • A person (especially a child) who is homeless and without means of support; also, a person excluded from society; an outcast. 

  • A plant introduced in a place outside its native range but is not persistently naturalized. 

  • A very thin person. 

  • Something found, especially if without an owner; something which comes along, as it were, by chance. 

  • A small flag used as a signal. 

  • Something (such as clouds or smoke) carried aloft by the wind. 

verb
  • To cast aside or reject, and thus make a waif. 

How often have the words castaway and waif occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )