catchup, catsup
(ˈkætʃʌp, ˈkætsʌp)
[see ketchup.]
A liquor extracted from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc., used as a sauce. (Common in N. Amer., but in the U.K. now only ketchup.)
| 1690 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Catchup, a high East-India Sauce. 1730 Swift Paneg. on Dean Wks. 1755 IV. i. 142 And, for our home-bred british cheer, Botargo, catsup, and caveer. 1751 H. Glasse Cookery Bk. 309 It will taste like foreign Catchup. 1832 Veg. Subst. Food 333 One..application of mushrooms is..converting them into the sauce called Catsup. 1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery v. (1850) 136 (L.) Walnut catsup. 1862 Macm. Mag. Oct. 466 He found in mothery catsup a number of yellowish globular bodies. |