Brewer's: Kay

or Sir Key. Son of Sir Ector, and foster-brother of King Arthur. In Arthurian romance, this seneschal of England is represented as a rude and boastful knight, the first to attempt any achievement, but very rarely successful.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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