Also 8 kitchup: see also CATCHUP. [app. ad. Chinese (Amoy dial.) kôechiap or ké-tsiap brine of pickled fish or shell-fish (Douglas, Chinese Dict., 46/1, 242/1). Malay kēchap (in Du. spelling ketjap), which has been claimed as the original source (Scott, Malayan Wds. in English, 64–67), may be from Chinese.
The Japanese kitjap, alleged in some recent dicts., is an impossible form for that language. (? error for Javanese.)]
A sauce made from the juice of mushrooms, walnuts, tomatoes, etc., and used as a condiment with meat, fish, or the like. Often with qualification, as mushroom ketchup, etc.
1711. C. Lockyer, Acc. 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.
1748. Mrs. Harrison, House-kpr.’s Pocket-bk., i. (ed. 4), 2. I therefore advise you to lay in a Store of Spices,… neither ought you to be without … Kitchup, or Mushroom Juice.
1817. Byron, Beppo, viii. Buy in gross … Ketchup, Soy, Chili-vinegar, and Harvey.
1840. Dickens, Barn. Rudge (1849), 91/1. Some lamb chops (breaded, with plenty of ketchup).
1874. Cooke, Fungi, 89. One important use to which several … fungi can be applied, is the manufacture of ketchup.
