Ketchup

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  ketchup \ketch"up\, n. [Probably of East Indian origin, because
     it was originally a kind of East Indian pickles. Cf. also
     Malay k[e^]chap fish sauce. --MW10.]
     A pureed table sauce made predominantly from tomatoes,
     flavored with onions, sugar, salt and spices; called also
     {tomato ketchup}. The term is also applied to pureed sauces


     containing mushrooms, walnuts, etc., being called in such
     cases {mushroom ketchup}, {walnut ketchup}, etc. [Written
     also {catsup} and {catchup}.]
     [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Catchup \Catch"up\, Catsup \Cat"sup\, n. [Probably of East
     Indian origin, because it was originally a kind of East
     Indian pickles. Cf. also Malay k[e^]chap fish sauce. --MW10.]
     A pureed table sauce made predominantly from tomatoes,
     flavored with onions, sugar, salt and spices; called also
     {tomato ketchup}. The term is also applied to pureed sauces
     containing mushrooms, walnuts, etc., being called in such
     cases {mushroom ketchup}, {walnut ketchup}, etc. [Written
     also {ketchup}.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ketchup
       n : thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes [syn: {catsup}, {cetchup},
            {tomato ketchup}]