Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

keech

/kiːt͡ʃ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.72 in modern English

Syllables: keech
IPA: /kiːt͡ʃ/

14

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.

Obsolete

name

Example Sentences

"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."
"I observed them [natives of British Columbia] on another occasion content with merely warming keeches of raw and solid flesh under their naked armpits."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: kechel

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

keeches (plural)

Rhymes With

each reach beach speech teach breach peach preach bleach beech leach leech

Questions

How do you pronounce keech?: The recorded pronunciation is /kiːt͡ʃ/.
What does keech mean?: A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
Where does keech come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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