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catsup

/ˈkætsəp/

catsup is the alternative form of ketchup.

Meaning of ketchup

Noun

ketchup (countable and uncountable, plural ketchups)

  1. (archaic, countable) Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes, but with mushrooms, fish, etc.). This is the older meaning.
    • The bottles, however, were port bottles, but contained mushroom ketchup; […]1883, Cassell's Dictionary of Cookery, page lxxxiii

See all 2 meanings of ketchup

Forms of catsup

pluralcatsups

Words formed from catsup

Questions about catsup

What is catsup the alternative form of?
Catsup is the alternative form of ketchup.
How do you pronounce catsup?
Catsup is pronounced /ˈkætsəp/.

Words near catsup in the dictionary

  1. catstitches
  2. catstitching
  3. catsuit
  4. catsuited
  5. catsuits
  6. catsup
  7. catsupless
  8. catsupped
  9. catsuppy
  10. catsups
  11. catswort

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catsup (page history and authors); ketchup (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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