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Deech vs Keech - What's the difference?

deech | keech |

As nouns the difference between deech and keech

is that deech is dirt grained into the hands, or in cracks, crevices, etc while keech is (obsolete) a mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.

As a verb deech

is to smear, daub, plaster, or impregnate, especially with dirt which becomes hard and ingrained.

deech

English

Alternative forms

* (dialectal) * (obsolete)

Verb

(es)
  • To smear, daub, plaster, or impregnate, especially with dirt which becomes hard and ingrained.

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Dirt grained into the hands, or in cracks, crevices, etc.

    • keech

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
  • * Shakespeare, Henry VIII act 1 scene 1
    • 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.
    (Heywood Walter Seton-Karr)
    (Webster 1913) ----