keech

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Why, thou clay-brained, nott-pated fool; thou greasy tallow keech --

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  1. A mass of fat rolled up in a round lump by a butcher. I wonder That such a keech can with his very bulk Take up the rays o' the beneficial sun. Shak., Hen. VIII., i. l, 55.

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  • Just as long as the keech completely insulated his ears. —  Also by Christopher Brookmyre
  • Why, thou clay-brained, nott-pated fool; thou greasy tallow keech -- —  McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
 

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  1. Perhaps an assibilated form, with mutated vowel, of cake. Cf. Kitchel.
 

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