interjection/pœ.ʃɛʁ/
Used to express compassion, surprise or pity.
“Peuchère Pétugue ! Peuchère Pétugue ! Lili, va vite le chercher ! Peuchère Pétugue !” — Poor Pétugue! Poor Pétugue! Lili, go get him! Poor Pétugue!.
Borrowed from Occitan pechaire (the Vivaro-Alpine form of pecaire, used in Provençal too as an interjection), from Latin peccātor (“sinner”). Doublet of pécaïre.