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ketsup

ketsup 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

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Forms of ketsup

pluralketsups

Questions about ketsup

What is ketsup the obsolete form of?
Ketsup is the obsolete form of ketchup.

Words near ketsup in the dictionary

  1. ketoximes
  2. Ketron
  3. Ketron Island
  4. Ketrons
  5. kets
  6. ketsup
  7. ketsups
  8. Kettell
  9. Kettells
  10. Kettenis
  11. Ketter

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