wratch

wratch

English

Noun

wratch (plural wratches)

1. Archaic form of wretch.
   • 1919, J. B. Salmond, My Man Sandy‎:

     I canna be bathered wi' the chatterin', fykie, kyowowin' little wratch.

   • 1903, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect‎:

     Noo soul to sheaere The trials the poor wratch must bear.

   • 1896, Ian Maclaren, Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers‎:

     He said he wes up for a walk an' juist dropped in, the wratch.'

   • 1868, Alexander Hislop, The Proverbs of Scotland‎:

     "Little Andrew, the wratch, has been makin' a totum wi' his faither's ae razor; an' the pair man's trying to shave himsel yonder, an' girnan like a sheep's head on the tangs."

   • 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!‎:

     Why, he's a praste, a Popish praste, that can't marry if he would, poor wratch."