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wretchock Now dial.|ˈrɛtʃək|
Also 6 wretchocke, -ecke, 7 -ocke.
[f. wretch n. + -ock. Cf. wretchcock.]
The smallest or weakest of a brood, etc.; a puny fowl; a diminutive person, little wretch.
a1529Skelton E. Rummyng 465 The goslenges were un⁓tyde; Elynour began to chyde, They be wretchockes [v. rr. wrethocke(s] thou hast brought, They are shyre shakyng nought! 1579G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 87 Lerned philosophers..are the dryest, leanist, ill-favoriddist, abiectist, base-mind[e]dist carrions and wretcheckes that ever you sett your eie on. 1621B. Jonson Gypsies Metam. in Horatius, etc. (1640) 48 The famous Impe yet grew a wretchocke [Heber MS. wretchock], and..for seven years together he was carefully carried at his Mothers back. 1903R. M. Gilchrist Beggar's Manor 223 She can't have gone of her own account; the poor wretchock dotes on you. 1905Eng. Dial. Dict., Wretchock,..the smallest pig of a litter. s. Wor[cester]. |