单词 | pea soup |
释义 | pea soupn.adj. 1. a. Soup made from peas; spec. a thick, yellow soup made from dried split peas. Also (occasionally) as adj. (in quot. 1827 with reference to colour). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > soup with pulses lentil-pottage1649 bean-broth1702 pea soup1703 pease-soup1706 lentil-broth1820 lentil-soup1820 bean-soup1837 the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > brownish yellow ochry1567 olive-coloured1612 sand-coloured1627 shammy1661 buff-coloured1686 pea soup1703 ochreish1747 ochreous1761 buff1765 ochraceous1776 buff-colour1796 buffish1802 mustard-coloured1825 nankeen1838 buffy1842 ochre-coloured1845 mustardy1850 ochrous1877 buff-yellow1882 buff-washed1883 mustard1919 Sahara1923 wheaten1975 1703 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion I. viii. 70 He..treated me with a dish of the best Pea-soup I ever tasted i'my Life. 1785 Advice to Officers Brit. Navy 90 Give the portable soup allowed to the sick, to the wardroom steward to put into the pea soup. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxviii. 208 With a sort of pea-soup complexion. 1890 B. H. Chamberlain Things Japanese 338 The resulting beverage resembles pea-soup in colour and consistency. 1934 G. Ross Tips on Tables 36 The pea soup accompanied by Swedish punch and Swedish pancakes on Thursdays. 1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities xiv. 99 Pea soup channeled past a sauceboat and saltcellar, and hit the Abbé's freshly ironed cuff. b. = pea-souper n. 1. More fully pea-soup fog. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [noun] > thick mist or fog > very thick fog pea-soup fog1849 pea-souper1890 thick1936 c1831 B. N. Webster High Ways & By Ways ii. ii. 26 All sense is enveloped in mystery, like London in a November pea-soup-coloured fog.] 1849 H. Melville Jrnl. Visit to London & Continent (1948) 45 Upon sallying out this morning encountered the oldfashioned pea soup London fog. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 15 Mar. 2/3 A peasoup fog in March is going a little too far in the way of meteorological jokes. 1976 J. Lee Ninth Man 10 He couldn't see more than fifteen or twenty feet through this pea soup. 1989 I. Taylor George Eliot (1990) viii. 84 Pea-soup fogs were a part of everyday life for half the year. 2002 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune (Nexis) 9 Apr. Fog lights that slice through thickest pea soup like light sabers. 2. North American slang (derogatory). A French Canadian. Also: French as spoken in Canada. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of Canada > [noun] > French French Canadian1698 coureur de bois1700 Canadien1727 Acadian French1741 Canadian French1755 habitant1789 Frenchy1829 Canuck1835 pea soup1866 pea-souper1930 Joe1963 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > French > Canadian Canadian French1836 French Canadian1866 pea soup1937 1866 A. L. Spedon Canad. Summer Evening Tales iii. 71 I want none of your d— peasoup excuses, or promises. 1896 G. Parker Pomp of Lavilettes 60 Yes, an' dey call us Johnny Pea-soups. 1912 B. Heeney Pickanock 22 Pea-soup! I never drink with the likes of you, Pauquett! 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 612/1 Talk pea-soup, to talk French-Canadian. 1945 H. MacLennan Two Solitudes 49 Listen, you goddam peasoup, you're too fast with your mouth. 1965 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Oct. 6/3 Our childhood forays in Ottawa between pea-soup and English-speaking gangs. 1991 D. Richler Kicking Tomorrow ii. 26 As far as he dug it, Quebec separatism went like this: the pea-soups had had it up to here with being bossed around by the Anglos. Derivatives pea-ˈsoupy adj. colloquial resembling or reminiscent of pea soup (applied esp. to thick fog). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > semi-fluidity > [adjective] slabby1542 pottagy1565 uliginous1576 softa1593 slabbery1600 creamy1610 slutchy1627 slabberish1648 pappy1662 semifluid1775 sloppy1794 sloshy1797 custardy1824 viscous1830 gruelly1838 sposhy1842 squishy1847 squitchy1851 pea-soupy1859 porridgey1859 soupy1869 custardly1870 gloopy1929 gunky1937 spawn-like1938 squodgy1970 gloppy1976 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [adjective] > dimmed infectc1384 nebulated1486 nubilate?1518 clouded1693 bedimmed1791 dimmed1839 pea-soupy1859 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [adjective] > foggy > resembling pea soup pea-soupy1859 1859 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 303/2 The..water..assumed a curious pea-soupy thickness, caused, I should fancy, by minute bits of ice floating in it. 1883 Good Words Nov. 723/2 The ‘pea-soupy’ character so distinctive of those [fogs] in cities. 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 31 May b1 Across the ripples of the pea-soupy canal, something..makes a jungle-like sound. 1996 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 8 Aug. 1B We started out Monday morning with seven boats, but..it was so pea-soupy we turned back. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1703 |
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