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pea-souper en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /ˈpiˌsupɚ/ (General-American)
• /ˈpiːˌsuːpə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

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”).

Meanings

1. (Canada, UK, informal) A dense, yellowish fog, often mixed with smoke; a pea-soup fog, a smog.
   • The dust surrounded us like a London pea-souper. 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 35, in Small Island, London: Review, page 346:
   • 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.
2. (Canada, derogatory, slang) A French-Canadian person, especially a Francophone from the province of Québec.
   • Those pea-soupers are the worst drivers on the road!

Forms

Hypernyms

fog

Relateds

pea-soupy

Synonyms

pea soup fog · pea-soup fog · peasoup fog

Translations (9)

bg смог (dense, yellowish fog) · bg гъста мъгла (dense, yellowish fog) · pl Frankokanadyjczyk (French-Canadian person) · pl gęsta mgła (dense, yellowish fog) · it nebbia fitta (dense, yellowish fog) · fi hernerokkasumu (dense, yellowish fog) · fr purée de pois (dense, yellowish fog) · it nebbione (dense, yellowish fog) · pl Frankokanadyjka (French-Canadian person)

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