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Definition: Ketchup |
KetchupNoun1. Thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ketchup" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1937. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Ketchup A corruption of the Japanese. Kitjap, a condiment sometimes sold as soy, but not equal to it. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ketchup (or catsup) is a sauce, often made with tomatoes.
Some people are under the impression that ketchup was originally an Americann invention, and has always been made out of tomatoes. However, ketchup started out as a sauce made of fish brine, herbs and spices. Later it was reformulated to include anchovies, walnuts, mushrooms and kidney beans. One popular theory is that the word ketchup is derived from the (茄汁) koechiap or ke-tsiap which is from the Amoy dialect of China by way of the Malay word, kechap. Around the late seventeenth century the name and samples arrived in England where it appeared in print as catchup and then finally as ketchup. A recipe for tomato ketchup found its way over the Atlantic and the rest is history. Ketchup in the 1800s referred to any sauce made with vinegar.
In 1981, Ronald Reagan's budget director, David Stockman, proposed classifying ketchup as a vegetable as part of Reagan's budget cuts for federally financed school lunch programs (it would make it cheaper to satisfy the requirements on vegetable content of lunches). The suggestion was widely ridiculed and the proposal was killed.
The basic recipe for modern ketchup is tomatoes, vinegar, sugar, salt, allspice, cloves and cinnamon. Onions, celery and other spices are frequent additions.
See Also
- Worcestershire sauce
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ketchup."
Synonyms: KetchupSynonyms: catsup (n), cetchup (n), tomato ketchup (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ketchup |
| English words defined with "ketchup": condiment. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ketchup": RAW SHELLFISH PREPARER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ketchup" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (ketchup), German (catsup, ketchup), Hungarian (catchup, catsup, ketchup), Italian (ketchup), Manx (catsup, ketchup), Spanish (catsup, ketchup), Swedish (catch up, catchup, catsup, ketchup). |
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Screenplays | The man puts his ketchup on his salad (The Odd Couple; writing credit: Bill Angelos; Art Baer) Potato man loves ketchup man. (Rabid; writing credit: David Cronenberg) Ketchup, relish, kraut, onions, chili (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor) I don't need no fancy foods like beans with ketchup! (Of Mice and Men; writing credit: John Steinbeck; Eugene Solow) Yes! It is hot dog. It's so tasty with ketchup and mustard (Zingo; writing credit: Matthew Allen; Santiago Gil) | |
Lyrics | I got ketchup on my blue jeans, I just burnt my hand ("All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight"; performing artist: Hank Williams Jr.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tomato Ketchup Kotei (1970) The Ketchup King (2002) Cargo Fish: More Ketchup Please (2001) Ketchup (1998) The Ketchup and Mustard Man (1994) | |
Song Titles | The Ketchup Song (performing artist: Las Ketchup) | |
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| "Ketchup" by Feike Kloostra Commentary: "A close-ip of a few heinz ketchup bottles." | "Ketchup" by Ariel C. Commentary: "Ketchup." |
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Business | Directive 90/220/EEC is the most basic law governing GMOs. The scope of Directive 90/220/EEC includes the marketing of GMOs and products consisting of or containing a GMO such as GM tomatoes, but does not extend to products derived from GMOs, such as paste or ketchup from a GMO tomato. (references) | |
Economic History | Ukraine | Soon nearly 90+ACU- of McDonald's products will be made from Ukrainian foodstuffs (buns will come from a bakery in Dnipropetrovsk, meat will be produced in Vinnitsa region, ketchup will be made in Kherson, and so on). (references) |
Egypt | Most promising sub-sectors include edible oil and mineral water, animal and chicken feed, potato processing equipment, fresh and preserved fruits and vegetables, tomato paste and ketchup, natural juices and concentrates, and dairy products. (references) | |
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Rush Limbaugh | Kerry tried to have his ketchup and eat it too, saying that we should leave the cuts in place where they are, but stop those that haven't gone into effect. |
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| "Ketchup" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.78% of the time. "Ketchup" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.78% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 82 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ketchup": ketchup bottle ♦ mushroom ketchup ♦ tomato ketchup ♦ walnut ketchup. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "ketchup": ketchup-holder, ketchup-stained, ketchup-type. | |
Ending with "ketchup": tomato-ketchup. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "ketchup"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | salcë dhomatesh me erëza. (various references) | |
Arabic | كاتشوب عصير البندورة, عصير البندورة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кетчъп (catchup, catsup). (various references) | |
Cebuano | ketsap. (various references) | |
Chinese | 番茄酱. (various references) | |
Czech | keèup. (various references) | |
Danish | tomatketchup (tomato ketchup). (various references) | |
Dutch | tomato-ketchup (tomato ketchup). (various references) | |
Faeroese | ketsjupp. (various references) | |
Farsi | چاشنی غذا (Spice), سوس گوجه فرنگی . (various references) | |
Finnish | kastike (dressing, gravy, sauce). (various references) | |
French | ketchup. (various references) | |
German | ketchup (catsup), Tomatensauce. (various references) | |
Greek | κέτσαπ, σάλτσα ντομάτασ (catchup, catsup). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קטשופ (catsup). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ketchup (catchup, catsup). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kecap (soya), saos. (various references) | |
Irish | citseap. (various references) | |
Italian | ketchup. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ケインズ主義 (catsup, crosshatching, Keynesianism). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ケチャップ (catsup). (various references) | |
Macedonian | kechap. (various references) | |
Manx | ketchup (catsup). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etchupkay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | molho de tomate (catchup, catsup). (various references) | |
Provencal | kechap. (various references) | |
Russian | кетчуп (catchup, catsup). (various references) | |
Samoan | tamato (tomato). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kečap (catchup, catsup). (various references) | |
Spanish | ketchup (catsup), salsa de tomate (catsup), catsup. (various references) | |
Swedish | ketchup (catch up, catchup, catsup). (various references) | |
Turkish | ketçap (catchup, catsup). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кетчуп (catchup). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nước xốt cà chua nấm. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ketchup": ketchups. (additional references) | |
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"Ketchup" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kechak, kekchi, Qetchua. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ketchup" (pronounced ke"khup) |
| 5 | k e" kh u p | catsup. |
| 3 | -kh u p | catchup, matchup. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-k-p-t-u" | |
-2 letters: chute, ketch, teuch. | |
-3 letters: cuke, cute, etch, heck, huck, kept, khet, pech, peck, phut, puce, puck, puke, tuck. | |
-4 letters: cep, cue, cup, cut, ecu, eth, hep, het, hue, hup, hut, kep, kue, pec, peh, pet, pht, put, the, tup, uke. | |
-5 letters: eh, et, he, pe, uh, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-k-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: ketchups. | |
+3 letters: superthick. | |
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