Etymology

keech

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Today it means: A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher. Full definition →

Middle English kechel
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The story

  1. Middle English · inherited fromkechel“small cake”
  2. English todaykeech

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

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishkechel all →

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