ketchups
- 1Plural of ketchup.
The supermarket aisle offered spicy, smoky, and low-sugar ketchups side by side.
Chefs at the festival compared their homemade ketchups against the commercial brands.
Note
A plural that only makes sense once the sauce is counted. Tomato ketchup is normally a mass noun, so the plural marks kinds, brands or batches: smoky and low-sugar ketchups. The older, now archaic meaning was countable from the start, covering sauces made from mushrooms or fish, each a ketchup of its own. The same spelling also serves the verb, as in she ketchups her fries.
ketchups is a form of ketchup
ketchup, noun: A seasoned, vinegar-based sauce made from ingredients such as mushrooms, fish, or walnuts rather than tomatoes. Full entry
- Forms
- ketchupketchups plural
- Spelling
- ketchup → ketchups: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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