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Webster 1913 Edition
Catsup
{
, Catch′up
,Cat′sup
}Noun.
[Probably of East Indian origin, because it was originally a kind of East Indian pickles. Cf. also Malay
kĕchap
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
.] Webster 1828 Edition
Catsup
CATSUP
,Noun.
Definition 2024
catsup
catsup
English
Noun
catsup (countable and uncountable, plural catsups)
- Alternative form of ketchup
- She ate Roger's French fries, drenched in catsup. - "Middle Age : A Romance" (2001) by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 171)