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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
.]

Cat′sup

(kăt′sŭp)
,
Noun.
Same as
Catchup
, and
Ketchup
.
☞ The
lesser cat-tail
is
Typha angustifolia
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Catsup

CATSUP

,
Noun.
A liquor extracted from mushrooms, used as a sauce.

Definition 2024


catsup

catsup

English

Noun

catsup (countable and uncountable, plural catsups)

  1. 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)

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