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pea-soupy

adj

Etymology

From pea soup + -y.

  1. derived from *supô✻
  2. derived from suppa
  3. derived from soupe
  4. inherited from soupe
  5. compounded as pea soup — “pea + soup”
  6. suffixed as pea-soupy — “pea soup + y”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of pea soup.

    • The bowels are rather loose; stools of pea-soupy colour; tongue dry and glazed.
    • There is not much smell to the water, but its taste is repulsive, having a sort of greasy, weak, pea-soupy flavor, as if they had handed you out the contents of the dishpan.
    • Three small works by [Jan] Van Goyen himself are included, in his typically subdued and rather pea-soupy colour, which, however, he makes extraordinarily attractive.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA