wretch
noun
[ rɛtʃ ]
• an unfortunate or unhappy person.
• "can the poor wretch's corpse tell us anything?"
Similar:
poor creature,
poor soul,
poor thing,
miserable creature,
sad case,
unfortunate,
poor unfortunate,
poor devil,
poor beggar,
poor bastard,
poor bunny,
sod,
bugger,
Origin:
Old English wrecca (also in the sense ‘banished person’), of West Germanic origin; related to German Recke ‘warrior, hero’, also to the verb wreak.
