keech

See also: Keech

English

Etymology

Compare dialectal English keech (“cake”), perhaps ultimately a back-formation from Middle English kechel (“small cake”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kiːt͡ʃ/
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Noun

keech (plural keeches)

(obsolete) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
- 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
  I wonder
  That such a keech can with his very bulk
  Take up the rays o' th' beneficial sun,
  And keep it from the earth.
- 1889, Heywood Walter Seton-Karr, Ten Years' Wild Sports in Foreign Lands: Or, Travels in the Eighties:
  I observed them on another occasion content with merely warming keeches of raw and solid flesh under their naked armpits.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for keech in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Cheek, cheek

Scots

Noun

keech (uncountable)

Alternative spelling of kich

References

“keech” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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