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Origin of Keech Total Records: 1  Origin of Keech, Meaning of Keech Origin: Keech is an anglo-saxon word meaning fat or tallow and the practice of naming workmen by the work they performed leeds to Keech being a low grade labourer who probably removed the layers of flesh and fat from animal hides. It thus by usage became a derogatory term. Shakespeare used it when king henry described Cardinal Wolseley as a "Great Keech whose very girth denies the sunshine to the earth beneath" in other words a big fat lump of a man.later Keech meant a Butcher and also a tallow candle maker. Surnames: Keech or Keach aka Keetch Submitted by: George Keech 11/9/2009 1:01 AM Page 1 of 1

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