pobrecita

American  

[poh-bre-see-tuh] / ˌpoʊ brɛˈsi tə /

noun

1. Spanish. a woman or girl who deserves sympathy: often used ironically or as a term of endearment.

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Example Sentences

“Oh no, pobrecita, why didn’t you tell me?” he says.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar

“Still a girl when she died, pobrecita, just turned twenty-five.”

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

As concerns the wife of Juan de Dios, and who was now his widow, pobrecita, she was not to be found at her home.

From Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales by Hartmann, George (Henry George August)