pea soup

English

Finnish pea soup and pancakes served by Finnish Defence Forces

Etymology

From pea +‎ soup. Doublet of pisupo.

Pronunciation

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Noun

pea soup (countable and uncountable, plural pea soups)

1. (cooking) A thick soup made with dried peas (often split peas) and various other ingredients.
2. (countable, slang, ethnic slur) A French or French Canadian person.

   Synonym: pea-souper

3. (slang) Thick fog.

   Synonyms: pea-souper, pea-soup fog

4. A greyish green or dull chartreuse colour, like the colour of pea soup.

Derived terms

• pea-souper
• pea-soup fog
• pea-soupy
• thick as pea soup

Descendants

• → Samoan: pisupo
  • → English: pisupo

Translations

soup made from peas

• Czech: hrachová polévka f, hrachovka (cs) f
• Dutch: erwtensoep (nl) f, snert (nl) m
• Finnish: hernekeitto (fi), hernerokka (fi), rokka (fi), hernari (fi)
• French: soupe aux pois (fr) f
• Galician: sopa de chícharos
• German: Erbsensuppe (de) f
• Greek: μπιζελόσουπα (el) f (bizelósoupa), σούπα φάβας f (soúpa fávas)

  Ancient Greek: ἔτνος n (étnos)

• Manx: anvroie pishyragh m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ertesuppe m or f, ertersuppe m or f

  Nynorsk: ertesuppe f, ertersuppe f

• Polish: grochówka (pl) f, grochowa (pl) f, zupa grochowa f
• Russian: горо́ховый суп m (goróxovyj sup)
• Swedish: ärtsoppa (sv) c

thick fog

• Finnish: hernerokkasumu (fi)

Adjective

pea soup (comparative more pea soup, superlative most pea soup)

1. Of the color of pea soup (greyish green or dull chartreuse).

   Alternative form: pea-soup

References

• “pea soup”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.