See also: peasouper and pea souper
Contents
- 1 English
- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Pronunciation
- 1.3 Noun
- 1.3.1 Alternative forms
- 1.3.2 Synonyms
- 1.3.3 Hypernyms
- 1.3.4 Coordinate terms
- 1.3.5 Translations
- 1.4 References
- 1.5 Further reading
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 (General Australian): (file) - Hyphenation: pea-soup‧er
Noun
[edit]
pea-souper (plural pea-soupers)
- (British, 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
- Bulgarian: гъста мъгла (gǎsta mǎgla), смогm (smog)
- Finnish: hernerokkasumu(fi)
- French: purée de pois(fr)f
- Italian: nebbia fittaf, nebbionem
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
