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kechap

kechap is the obsolete 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 kechap

pluralkechaps

Questions about kechap

What is kechap the obsolete form of?
Kechap is the obsolete form of ketchup.

Words near kechap in the dictionary

  1. kecap
  2. kecap manis
  3. kecapi
  4. kecapi suling
  5. kecapis
  6. kechap
  7. kechaps
  8. Kechi
  9. Kechienjian
  10. Kechror
  11. Kechua

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