ketnic.html - See: KETTLE OF FISH, POT CALLS THE KETTLE BLACK.

ketnic.html - {v. phr.}, {informal} Something to be considered; how things are; a happening; business. * /I thought he needed money, but it was another kettle of fish - his car had disappeared./ - Usually used with "pretty", "fine", "nice", but meaning bad trouble. * /He had two flat tires and no spare on a country road at night, which was certainly a pretty kettle of fish./ * /This is a fine kettle of fish! I forgot my book./ Compare: CUP OP TEA(2).

ketnic.html - n.
a two-masted fore-and-aft rigged sailing-boat with a mizen-mast stepped forward of the rudder and smaller than its foremast. [ME catche, prob. f. CATCH]

ketnic.html - n.
(also catchup) a spicy sauce made from tomatoes, mushrooms, vinegar, etc., used as a condiment. [Chin. dial. koechiap pickled-fish brine]

ketnic.html - n.
any of a class of organic compounds in which two hydrocarbon groups are linked by a carbonyl group, e.g. propanone (acetone).

ketone body Biochem. any of several ketones produced in the body during the metabolism of fats.

ketonic adj. [G Keton alt. of Aketon ACETONE]

ketnic.html - n.
the excretion of abnormally large amounts of ketone bodies in the urine.