Ketchup vs Dude - What's the difference?
ketchup | dude |
(uncountable) A tomato-vinegar based sauce.
# and garlic.
(countable) Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes), or a specific brand or kind of such sauce – see usage notes below.
To cover with ketchup.
* 1867 , John Maddison Morton, Aunt Charlotte's maid: a farce in one act
* 1973 , Horizon (page 15)
* 2009 , David Silverman, Twinkle (page 4)
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(slang) A man.
(slang, used in the vocative) A term of address for a man.
(originally) An inexperienced cowboy.
(slang) A tourist.
(archaic) A dandy, a man who is very concerned about his dress and appearance.
(slang) A term conveying excitement.
to address someone with the term of address
As nouns the difference between ketchup and dude
is that ketchup is while dude is gum or dude can be ripe blackberry.ketchup
English
(wikipedia ketchup)Alternative forms
* catsup * catchup (obsolete)Noun
- fish ketchup'''; fruit '''ketchup'''; mushroom '''ketchup
Usage notes
The term is now used almost exclusively to refer to tomato ketchup. However, at one time it was a more general term for sauce, and it is still occasionally used in this way, as with grape ketchup and mushroom ketchup. The spelling ketchup' became significantly preferred in the United States due to the popularity of (Heinz Tomato Ketchup), which used this spelling since shortly after its introduction in 1876 (after earlier using catsup) to distinguish itself from competitors. Other major brands, such as Hunt, subsequently followed, with Del Monte only switching to '''ketchup in 1988.“Is There a Difference Between Ketchup and Catsup?”, ''Slate, Aisha Harris, April 22, 2013
Verb
(ketchupp)- It strikes me she's "ketchupped " the lot! I won't touch a morsel!
- "Well," said Chuck, ketchupping his hamburger, "I'd rather do without King Lear than put up with the human agony it sprang out of. I'd rather not have the Eroica than have the big bloody conqueror it tries to immortalize."
- Their fellow diners, like their ketchupped grub, were appropriately dashed and splattered with paint and plaster, reading their Suns and Daily Mirror.
References
dude
English
Alternative forms
* dood * dewd * (Internet slang)Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia dude)- Relax, dude .
Synonyms
* (man) bloke , chap (dated British), cove (dated British), guy * (term of address for a man) mate (qualifier) * (dandy) dandy, fop, masher * See alsoDerived terms
* dude-bro * dude ranch * dudine (obsolete), dudess (obsolete), dudetteInterjection
- Dude , I’m glad you finally called.
