pea-souper
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See also: peasouper and pea souper
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From pea soup + -er (suffix meaning ‘person or thing connected with’);[1]
- (dense, yellowish fog”): from the appearance of the fog
- (French-Canadian person): may be from the prevalence of pea soup in French cuisine: compare pea soup (“(slang, derogatory) French person”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpiːˌsuːpə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpiˌsupɚ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Hyphenation: pea-soup‧er
Noun[edit]
pea-souper (plural pea-soupers)
- (UK, Canada, informal) A dense, yellowish fog, often mixed with smoke; a pea-soup fog, a smog.
- A man bumped into a lamp post during a pea-souper; he immediately apologised to it, not realising what it was.
- I can hear the bell on the buoy, but I can’t see anything in this pea-souper.
- 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 35, in Small Island[1], London: Review, page 346:
- The dust surrounded us like a London pea-souper.
- (Canada, slang, derogatory) A French-Canadian person, especially a Francophone from the province of Québec.
- Those pea-soupers are the worst drivers on the road!
Alternative forms[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
fog
Hypernyms[edit]
fog
Coordinate terms[edit]
fog
Translations[edit]
dense, yellowish fog
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French-Canadian person
References[edit]
- ^ “pea-souper, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2005; “pea-souper, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading[edit]
- pea soup fog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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