wretchockn.
/ˈrɛtʃək/ Now dialect.
The smallest or weakest of a brood, etc.; a puny fowl; a diminutive person, little wretch.
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the world > animals > birds > young bird > [noun] > last hatched or weakest
wretchocka1529
nest-cockle1567
nestle-cock1582
wretchcock1641
wallydraigle1770
nestle-chick1932
the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person
dwarfeOE
congeonc1230
go-by-ground?a1300
smalla1300
shrimpc1386
griga1400
gruba1400
murche1440
nirvil1440
mitinga1450
witherling1528
wretchocka1529
elf1530
hop-o'-my-thumb1530
pygmy1533
little person1538
manikin1540
mankin1552
dandiprat1556
yrle1568
grundy1570
Jack Sprat1570
squall1570
manling1573
Tom Thumb1579
pinka1585
squib1586
screaling1594
giant-dwarf1598
twattle1598
agate1600
minimus1600
cock sparrow1602
dapperling1611
modicum1611
scrub1611
sesquipedalian1615
dwarflinga1618
wretchcock1641
homuncio1643
whip-handle1653
homuncule1656
whippersnapper1674
chitterling1675
sprite1684
carliea1689
urling1691
wirling1691
dwarf man1699
poppet1699
durgan1706
short-arse1706
tomtit1706
Lilliputian1726
wallydraigle1736
midge1757
minikin1761
squeeze-crab1785
minimum1796
niff-naff1808
titman1818
teetotum1822
squita1825
cradden1825
nyaff1825
weed1825
pinkeen1850
fingerling1864
Lilliput1867
thumbling1867
midget1869
inch1884
shorty1888
titch1888
skimpling1890
stub1890
scrap1898
pygmoid1922
lofty1933
peewee1935
smidgen1952
pint-size1954
pint-sized1973
munchkin1974
a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 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!
1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 87 Lerned philosophers..are the dryest, leanist, ill-favoriddist, abiectist, base-mind[e]dist carrions and wretcheckes that ever you sett your eie on.
1621 B. Jonson Gipsies Metamorph. in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (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.
1903 R. M. Gilchrist Beggar's Manor 223 She can't have gone of her own account; the poor wretchock dotes on you.
1905 Eng. Dial. Dict. Wretchock,..the smallest pig of a litter. s. Wor[cester].
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