Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A condiment consisting of a thick, smooth-textured, spicy sauce usually made from tomatoes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
catchup .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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 casesmushroom ketchup ,walnut ketchup , etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable A
tomato -vinegar basedsauce . - noun countable Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes), or a specific
brand or kind of such sauce – see usage notes below.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And to make its trek into the 21st century complete, Heinz has launched a Facebook fan page, where ketchup enthusiasts If there are any! can share stories, videos, photos about…..ketchup.
Angelina Jolie Heinz Spokesmodel: Angelina Jolie Heinz Ad Campaign 2010
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Did you know the American front porch is an architectural tradition from Africa ... that an early version of pizza was baked on ancient warriors 'shields ... and that the word "ketchup" comes from the Chinese "ki-tsiap" meaning "fish sauce"?
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To serve, mix in ketchup or hot sauce of your choice.
Laura Silverman: Eating Meaty Laura Silverman 2010
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For the first time in 40 years, Heinz ketchup is changing its famous recipe — by lowering the salt content in an effort to appeal to more health-conscious consumers, the company said yesterday.
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Restaurants give ketchup away, so "cost is king," says Amy Coltrin , senior director of product development for Golden State Foods Corp., a Heinz competitor that supplies private-label ketchup to most McDonald's in the U.S.
Old Ketchup Packet Heads for Trash Sarah Nassauer 2011
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� Ms. OBAMA: Many of these kids may never learn that ketchup comes from a tomato or that French fries actually come from a potato, because they're very disconnected from the food that they eat.
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� Ms. OBAMA: Many of these kids may never learn that ketchup comes from a tomato or that French fries actually come from a potato, because they're very disconnected from the food that they eat.
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� Ms. OBAMA: Many of these kids may never learn that ketchup comes from a tomato or that French fries actually come from a potato, because they're very disconnected from the food that they eat.
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Smokey and Blaise look great and Smokey knows how important ketchup is to keeping ones sanity (just ask Garrison Keillor).
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� Ms. OBAMA: Many of these kids may never learn that ketchup comes from a tomato or that French fries actually come from a potato, because they're very disconnected from the food that they eat.
chained_bear commented on the word ketchup
A type of fruit-butter, much like applesauce. According to discussion on criss-cross applesauce.
October 4, 2008
reesetee commented on the word ketchup
*snort*
October 4, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word ketchup
What? WeirdNet says it's a sauce...
October 4, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word ketchup
p.s. this word has a pretty awesome etymology. And I highly recommend the couple of chapters in Mark Kurlansky's Salt for more history than you ever dreamed ketchup had in its little tomatoey globules.
October 4, 2008
reesetee commented on the word ketchup
C_b, you carelessly left "little tomatoey globules" unbracketed. Shame.
October 4, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word ketchup
*makes restitution*
*beats chest in penance*
October 4, 2008
reesetee commented on the word ketchup
THANK you. :-)
October 4, 2008
rolig commented on the word ketchup
As a child I learned the spelling "catsup" for this condiment, I think from the writing on our catsup bottle. Of course, I felt a certain awe for this word that could be spelled one way and pronounced entirely differently.
October 6, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word ketchup
Rolig, I think catsup is a very common spelling; I'm not sure either is really preferred except by individuals. My understanding (which comes almost exclusively from Kurlansky's book, below, p. 189-191 acc. to Amazon) is that the word was originally something like "ke-tsiap" (going off vague memory here), and that pronunciation probably was more like catsup than ketchup.
The "original" ke-tsiap (or however it was spelled, this being well before standardization) was a salt-preserved condiment sauce made from fermented inedible fish parts (e.g. heads, guts) and sounded to me a lot more similar to Worcestershire sauce than to what we know today as ketchup. But anyway... what we call catsup or ketchup can be made from a wide variety of foodstuffs--I've seen banana ketchup quite frequently, actually--but the most common seems to be the tomato.
I don't know anyone who pronounces it cat-sup, though.
October 6, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word ketchup
See ketchup couverture.
January 28, 2010