keech
See also: Keech
English edit
Etymology edit
Compare dialectal English keech (“cake”), perhaps ultimately a back-formation from Middle English kechel (“small cake”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 [natives of British Columbia] on another occasion content with merely warming keeches of raw and solid flesh under their naked armpits.
References edit
- “keech”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Scots edit
Noun edit
keech (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of kich
References edit
- “keech” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.