Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as catchup.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as catchup, and ketchup.

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  • noun Alternative form of ketchup.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes

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Examples

  • Cutting school funding using deceptive practices, like declaring catsup is a vegetable?

    Pawlenty: GOP's 'clearly' been damaged 2009

  • So the catsup was a rare item, but a valued prize nonetheless.

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  • I wonder if using catsup, which is quite high in vinegar, would have been better.

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  • I wonder if using catsup, which is quite high in vinegar, would have been better.

    I'd rather be baking..... 2006

  • If you'll believe me, that woman once turned her second-cousin's sister-in-law into a mushroom, and somebody picked her, and she was made into catsup, which is a thing no man likes to have happen in his family!

    Little Saint Elizabeth, and Other Stories 1893

  • Back in the 60s (I think), tomato sauce was called "catsup," and the definition of great catsup was its low viscosity (i.e. it poured really easily, was very thin and watery).

    Anticipation 2009

  • Back in the 60s (I think), tomato sauce was called "catsup," and the definition of great catsup was its low viscosity (i.e. it poured really easily, was very thin and watery).

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  • Back in the 60s (I think), tomato sauce was called "catsup," and the definition of great catsup was its low viscosity (i.e. it poured really easily, was very thin and watery).

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  • Back in the 60s (I think), tomato sauce was called "catsup," and the definition of great catsup was its low viscosity (i.e. it poured really easily, was very thin and watery).

    Anticipation 2009

  • In the wake of a wreck at Caplin Bay, a number of cases labeled "catsup" were washed up on the beach.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

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  • Also spelled "ketchup".

    October 6, 2008

  • I like this spelling too.

    October 6, 2008

  • "By the second half of the eighteenth century, thick gravies and cullises were giving way to catsups, or catchups: home-prepared sauces used as instant flavours for melted butter, or to enliven a stew or made dish. Hannah Glasse had given an early recipe for a sauce of anchovies, shallots, stale beer, mushrooms and spices all boiled together and reduced. Walnut catsup was now popular, and mushroom catsup was made from large mushrooms left to lie in salt overnight, then stewed and strained through a coarse cloth, the liquid simmered with ginger, pepper, mace and cloves until it had reduced to a thick syrup....

    They caught on so fast that by the 1780s home-made catsups in bottles were being slipped into cruet frames at the dining table, adorned with silver neck labels. They were useful, but catsups did also mark the beginning of a decline in culinary skills in Britain and the relinquishing of centuries of pride in the slow refinement of a perfect sauce."

    --Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 219

    January 18, 2017