matsouped up engine

[NorthDevon66]

I can find "souped up" in the dictionary but not the word "matsouped". You almost never hear it these days but I'm pretty sure it is in fact a word. Am I right? If so where does it come from?

Song below made me think of this.

https://youtu.be/DG9d-DRotqA?t=129

[Olivergt]

I've never heard that word before.

In what context or setting have you heard it?

[NorthDevon66]

Olivergt said:

I've never heard that word before.

In what context or setting have you heard it?

I think I heard my Dad say it on occasions (he was born in 1920).

Plus it's in the song link I included - unless I am mishearing it.

[Scrump]

Another recording of the song here:
https://www.facebook.com/100004904629399/videos/18...

In this version it sounds to me like ‘ bat souped up engines’

I know ‘ bat soup’ and I know ‘souped up’, not sure what putting those two together would mean.

I don’t think there is a word ‘matsouped’.

This is one for the misheard song lyrics thread.

[J4CKO]

Chuck Berry used it in you Never can tell, never heard it used with a prefix.

They bought a souped-up jitney, 'twas a cherry red '53
They drove it down to Orleans to celebrate the anniversary
It was there that Pierre was married to the lovely mademoiselle
"C'est la vie", say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell

[NorthDevon66]

Yes, "souped up" is well-known. We only need to nail down the prefix. In the youtube clip it seems he is pronouncing the word matsouped and in the facebook version he is saying batsouped. I would tend to trust the version done when he was younger.

[shakotan]

There's no such word - HTH

[Polly Grigora]

J4CKO said:

Chuck Berry used it in you Never can tell, never heard it used with a prefix.

They bought a souped-up jitney, 'twas a cherry red '53
They drove it down to Orleans to celebrate the anniversary
It was there that Pierre was married to the lovely mademoiselle
"C'est la vie", say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell

Never heard it called you Never can tell