α. 1600s– catchup, 1700s cachup, 1700s catchop, 1700s katchop, 1700s– katchup (now rare), 1800s– catshup.
β. 1700s– catsup, 1800s– katsup.
catsupn.
/ˈkatsəp/, /ˈkatsʌp/, /ˈkɛtʃəp/, /ˈkɛtʃʌp/, U.S. /ˈkætsəp/, /ˈkɛtʃəp/ Now chiefly North American.
Originally: a type of piquant sauce produced in southeast Asia, probably made from fermented soybeans or fish; (also) a sauce prepared in imitation of this, typically made from the juice or pulp of a fruit, vegetable, or other foodstuff, combined with vinegar or wine and spices, and used as an ingredient or condiment (frequently with modifying word indicating the main ingredient). Now usually: a thick red sauce made chiefly from tomatoes, vinegar, and sugar and used as a condiment or relish (cf. tomato catsup n. at tomato n. and adj. Compounds 5a).Also called ketchup (see ketchup n.).Perhaps as a result of influence from major commercial brands of sauce, ketchup seems to have become the dominant term from around the middle of the 20th cent., although catsup is still well attested in North America.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > ketchup
ketchup1682
catsup1696
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β. 1735 J. Swift Panegyrick on D— in Wks. II. 292 And, for our home-bred British Chear, Botargo, Catsup, and Caveer.1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 333 One..application of mushrooms is..converting them into the sauce called Catsup.1861 Fairfield (Iowa) Ledger 14 Feb. 1/3 Pickles and Catsups..cherry pickle, plum catsup, tomato catsup, cucumber catsup, walnut catsup.1921 H. C. Witwer Rubyiat of Freshman 48 One can't make catsup without smashing some tomatoes.1953 N.Y. Herald Tribune 7 June (This Week section) 20/3 Sloppy Joe hamburgers, French fries with catsup.2008 G. Carunungan in E. B. Maranan & L. S. Maranan-Goldstein Taste of Home 188 I remember how it took such great effort for our two boys..to have to eat Tony's spaghetti which had no sugar and no catsup.1696 J. Floyer Preternatural State Animal Humours iv. 45 By Artificial Sauces we imitate the natural foetid and sub-acid Slime of the Stomach, as in Catchup mango Plumbs, Mushrooms, and some Indian Liquors or Sauces of Garlic.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Catchup, a high East-India Sauce.
1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 70 To make English Katchop.
1748 H. Glasse Art of Cookery (ed. 3) xix. 309 It will taste like foreign Catchup.
1771 Coll. best Mod. Poems 60 No catchop I demand, nor pickle green.
1890 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 31 May Put into a stewpan..a glass of red wine, a tablespoon of mushroom catchup, and fifty tops of asparagus.
1914 Amer. Thresherman Aug. 80/3 Much of the katchup is made from decayed pumpkin stock.
1954 Warwick (Queensland) Daily News 2 Oct. 3/4 Add catchup and next ingredient, bring to boil.
1990 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 5 Dec. (Holiday Recipes section) 6/1 1 teaspoon catchup.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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