ketchupped

1. 1
   adjective

   Coated or covered in ketchup.

   A pile of ketchupped fries sat cooling at the edge of the tray.

   He wiped his ketchupped hands on a paper napkin before answering the call.

   Similarketchuppy

   Note

   The participle hardens here into a describing word: a ketchupped dog, ketchupped hands. It is not comparable. Food is ketchupped or it is not, so "more ketchupped" sounds odd. Its near-synonym is ketchuppy. The spelling wavers between one p and two: Eric Kim writes of "a ketchuped dog" in The New York Times (2022), while the past-tense verb doubles it.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of ketchup.

   Note

   A verb made straight from the noun, with no suffix marking the change: to ketchup something is to cover it with the sauce, and the past form is built regularly with -ed. It is transitive, so it wants an object. You ketchup the fries; you do not simply ketchup. The same form also serves as the adjective for food covered in ketchup, as in a ketchupped burger.

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