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pea-soup en · ADJ
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of pea soup.
It is great to live in the U.S.A. Here we get the pea soup, while in London they get the pea-soup fog.
1924, Shoe and Leather Reporter, volume 156, number 12, page 22:[…] the Game Boy's energy-efficient pea-soup LCD screen made it the original green machine!
2006, Nintendo Power, volumes 243–245, page 52:
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pea-soup en · NOUN
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(alt-of, countable, dated, uncountable) Dated form of pea soup.
The dinner consisted of a bowl of pea-soup. It was very nice, and all the more so because we were so very hungry.
1961 February 3, Mary Ann Guesford, quotee, “The Good Old Days? ‘Rubbish’ Says Mary Guesford (84)”, in The Wanstead & Woodford Guardian, volume LXXXIX, number 4743, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 3:“I’m afraid, gentlemen, you will not have a very grand dinner,” observed the captain, as the steward removed the plated covers of the dishes; but when on service we must rough it out how we can. Mr. O’Brien, pea-soup? I recollect faring harder than this through one cruize, in a flush vessel.
1833, [Frederick Marryat], “O’Brien’s Good Advice—Captain Kearney Again Deals in the Marvellous”, in Peter Simple. […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 266:The lumber bosses say they must make zample^([sic]) of those thieving pea-soups, so they give me three year for one hundred dollar what was mine!
1933 June 17, Aimee D. Linton, “His Big Tall Trees”, in The Toronto Star Weekly, 24th year, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 2, page 3, columns 1–2:Dinner, Sunday, one bowl of pea-soup, four ounces of bacon, eight of rye bread, and half a bowl of potatoes.
1880 August 3, “Prison Life in Norway: A Visit to the Penitentiary of Bergen. […]”, in The New York Times, volume XXIX, number 9017, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 4:
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