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katsup

katsup 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

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Forms of katsup

pluralkatsups

Questions about katsup

What is katsup the alternative form of?
Katsup is the alternative form of ketchup.

Words near katsup in the dictionary

  1. katsudon
  2. Katsumi
  3. katsuo
  4. katsuobushi
  5. katsuogi
  6. katsup
  7. katsups
  8. katsura
  9. Katsuragi
  10. katsuramono
  11. katsuramonos

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