α. 1600s– ketchup, 1700s ketchop, 1700s kitchup.
β. 1800s– ketsup.
单词 | ketchup |
释义 | ketchupn.α. 1600s– ketchup, 1700s ketchop, 1700s kitchup. β. 1800s– ketsup. In early use: a type of piquant sauce produced in southeast Asia, probably made from fermented soybeans or fish. Later: a sauce made 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; = tomato ketchup n. at tomato n. and adj. Compounds 5a.The word ketchup first appears in English in the 17th cent. with reference to a type of sauce encountered by British travellers, traders, and colonists in southeast Asia and introduced to Britain by them. Similar sauces referred to as ketchups appear from the 18th cent. using a variety of ingredients, anchovies, mushrooms, walnuts, and oysters being particularly popular. From the late 19th cent. tomato ketchup became the most popular form.Also called catsup: see catsup n.mushroom ketchup, tomato ketchup, walnut ketchup: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > ketchup ketchup1682 catsup1696 1682 Nat. Hist. Coffee, Thee, Chocolate, Tobacco 18 Your Soys, your Ketchups and Caveares, your Cantharides, and your Whites of Eggs, are not to be compared to our rude Indian. 1683 M. H. Young Cooks Monitor 104 Take some Mutton or Beef gravy, and shred into it a Shalot or two, and a little Pepper, half a spoonful of Ketchup, or if you have no Ketchup, then put in one Anchovy. 1711 C. Lockyer Acct. Trade India 128 Soy comes in Tubbs from Jappan, and the best Ketchup from Tonquin; yet good of both sorts are made and sold very cheap in China. 1733 S. Harrison House-keeper's Pocket-bk. i. 3 I therefore advise you to lay in a store of Spices,..neither ought you to be without..Kitchup, or Mushroom Juice. 1787 Times 5 Nov. 1/3 Wood's sauce, Quin's sauce, oyster ketchup. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xix. 44 Some lamb chops (breaded, with plenty of ketchup). 1875 M. C. Cooke Fungi 89 One important use to which several..fungi can be applied, is the manufacture of ketchup. 1915 Daily Republican-News (Hamilton. Ohio) 17 Sept. 8/4 Plum Ketchup.—Four quarts of plums, one pound of sugar, one half teaspoonful each of cloves, allspice and pepper. 1968 F. Exley Fan's Notes ii. 50 I should go to Paris, live on fried potatoes and ketchup, write The Great American Novel and have done with it. 1990 P. Auster Music of Chance iv. 88 Potato chips, corn on the cob, and a ketchup dispenser in the shape of a tomato. 2007 South Wales Echo (Nexis) 1 Sept. 10 Ian used to love putting ketchup on a roast dinner. He's grown out of that now but still loves lashings of red sauce on pasties. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1682 |
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