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pea-soup
Also pease-soup.
[f. pease n., pea1 + soup.]
a. A soup made from peas. Also attrib. (chiefly in reference to its usual dull yellow colour and thick consistency), esp. as pea-soup fog (also absol.)
1711Swift Jrnl. to Stella 21 Apr., I refused ham and pigeons, pease-soup, stewed beef. 1828P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 205 With a sort of pea-soup complexion. 1835Gentl. Mag. Dec. 629/2 Mr. Effingham Wilson's pea-soup and porter dinners. 1849H. Melville Jrnl. Visit to London & Continent (1948) 45 Upon sallying out this morning encountered the oldfashioned pea soup London fog. 1887S. Austral. Advertiser 8 Jan. 4/7 A month or two ago London experienced a succession of ‘pea-soup fog’ days. 1899Westm. Gaz. 15 Mar. 2/3 A peasoup fog in March is going a little too far in the way of meteorological jokes. 1965Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 7 Apr. (1970) 256 We flew in pea soup and uncertainty. 1976J. Lee Ninth Man 10 He couldn't see more than fifteen or twenty feet through this pea soup. 1978‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions xix. 283 Londoners groping through a pea-soup fog.
b. A French Canadian; the French spoken in Canada. N. Amer. slang.
1896G. Parker Pomp of Lavilettes 60 Yes, an' dey call us Johnny Pea-soups. 1912B. Heeney Pickanock 22 Pea-soup! I never drink with the likes of you, Pauquett! 1931‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route iii. 38 A Canadian Frenchman is a ‘Canuck’ or sometimes a ‘pea soup’. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 612/1 Talk pea-soup, to talk French-Canadian. 1945H. MacLennan Two Solitudes 49 Listen, you goddam peasoup, you're too fast with your mouth. 1959J. W. Godsell I was no Lady x. 170 I'm going to the Halfway right now to fix that damned Pea-soup. 1965Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Oct. 6/3 Our childhood forays in Ottawa between pea-soup and English-speaking gangs.
Hence ˈpea-ˌsoupy a. colloq., resembling pea-soup (said esp. of a thick yellow fog).
1860Russell Diary in India II. i. 6 Half-an-hour or so had passed away in a sort of dreamy, pea-soupy kind of existence. 1883W. Sharp in Gd. Words Nov. 723/2 The ‘pea-soupy’ character so distinctive of those [fogs] in cities. |