pea-souper
noun/ˈpiːˌsuːpə/UK/ˈpiˌsupɚ/US
Etymology
From pea soup + -er (suffix meaning ‘person or thing connected with’); * (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”).
Definitions
A dense, yellowish fog, often mixed with smoke
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.
- The dust surrounded us like a London pea-souper.
A French-Canadian person, especially a Francophone from the province of Québec.
- Those pea-soupers are the worst drivers on the road!
The neighborhood
- neighborpea-soupy
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for pea-souper. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA