catsuppy

English

Etymology

From catsup +‎ -y.

Adjective

catsuppy (comparative more catsuppy, superlative most catsuppy)

1. Alternative form of ketchuppy.
   • 1891, M[ordecai] C[ubitt] Cooke, “St George’s Mushroom”, in British Edible Fungi: How to Distinguish and How to Cook Them […], London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd. […], page 63:

     It has an amiable and clean look, grows in pastures of fresh springing grass, and has an ambrosial smell—an aroma different from and more pleasant than the strong catsuppy odour of the common mushroom.

   • 1942 June 21, Victor Elving, “[Voice of the People] Makeup”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume CI, number 152, Chicago, Ill., published 26 June 1942, page 10, column 6:

     Can’t you do something about the catsuppy lips and slaughter house fingernails of the otherwise attractive young ladies who are photographed for your Sunday picture section?

   • 1985 February, Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir, chapter 11, in The End of the Game (The Destroyer; 60), New York, N.Y.: Signet, New American Library, →ISBN, page 159:

     His secretary had gone hours before and he knew that dinner would be waiting for him when he arrived home, some kind of meat smothered in some kind of red catsuppy goo.

   • 2010 January, Annette Blair, Naked Dragon (A Works Like Magick Novel), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Sensation, →ISBN, page 127:

     […] Dewcup used both hands to pull globs of catsup off the edge of Whitney’s plate and into her mouth. “I like the pictures of Dewcup on the walls you painted,” the little girl said. / Precisely why he would keep Dewcup away from his walls until after lunch when he dunked the catsuppy pest in soapsuds.