ketchup
(ˈkɛtʃəp, -ʌp)
Also 8 kitchup: see also catchup.
[app. ad. Chinese (Amoy dial.) kôechiap or kê-tsiap brine of pickled fish or shell-fish (Douglas Chinese Dict. 46/1, 242/1). Malay kēchap (in Du. spelling ketjap), which has been claimed as the original source (Scott Malayan Wds. in English 64–67), may be from Chinese.
The Japanese kitjap, alleged in some recent dicts., is an impossible form for that language. (? error for Javanese.)]
A sauce made from the juice of mushrooms, walnuts, tomatoes, etc., and used as a condiment with meat, fish, or the like. Often with qualification, as mushroom ketchup, etc.
| 1711 Lockyer Acc. Trade India 128 Soy comes in Tubbs from Jappan, and the best Ketchup from Tonquin; yet good of both sorts are made and sold very cheap in China. 1748 Mrs. Harrison House-kpr.'s Pocket-bk. i. (ed. 4) 2, I therefore advise you to lay in a Store of Spices,..neither ought you to be without..Kitchup, or Mushroom Juice. 1817 Byron Beppo viii, Buy in gross..Ketchup, Soy, Chili⁓vinegar, and Harvey. 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge (1849) 91/1 Some lamb chops (breaded, with plenty of ketchup). 1874 Cooke Fungi 89 One important use to which several..fungi can be applied, is the manufacture of ketchup. |