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Peasoup en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of pea soup (“a French or French Canadian person”).
   alt of pea soup
   • In Canada, for instance, there is the most impassable race-barrier separating the English Canadians and the French Canadians: on the English side this is interpreted as indicative of a racial superiority, enjoyed by themselves vis-à-vis the “Peasoups.” 1948, Wyndham Lewis, “Cosmic Society and Cosmic Man”, in America and Cosmic Man, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1949, →OCLC, part 2, page 196:
   • “Bloody Peasoups won’t fight!” my father growled. 1986, Robert Collins, chapter 6, in The Long and the Short and the Tall: An Ordinary Airman’s War, Vancouver, B.C.: Greystone Books, published 1993, →ISBN, page 62:
   • No, nor I ain’t goin’ to kiss nobody’s whiskers: I ain’t a Peasoup. 1929, John Beames, chapter XVIII, in An Army without Banners, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, published March 1930, →OCLC, page 177:

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