wretch
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹɛtʃ/
wretch (plural wretches)
- An unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person.
- An unpleasant, annoying, worthless, or despicable person.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 532:
- […] Alaeddin ate and drank and was cheered and after he had rested and had recovered spirits he cried, "Ah, O my mother, I have a sore grievance against thee for leaving me to that accursed wight who strave to compass my destruction and designed to take my life. Know that I beheld Death with mine own eyes at the hand of this damned wretch, whom thou didst certify to be my uncle; […]
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 532:
- (archaic) An exile.
- French: malheureux, malheureux, malheureuse, malheureuses
- German: Loser, Tropf, armer Schlucker, armer Teufel, armes Schwein, armseliger Wicht
- Italian: miserabile, iellato, omuncolo, straccio, tapino
- Portuguese: miserável, desgraçado, coitado
- Russian: бедня́га
- Spanish: desgraciado, desventurado, desgraciada, desventurada
- German: elender Wicht
wretch (wretches, present participle wretching; past and past participle wretched)
- Misspelling of retch
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