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单词 pea soup
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pea soupn.adj.

Brit. /ˌpiː ˈsuːp/, U.S. /ˈpi ˈsup/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pea n.2, soup n.
Etymology: < pea n.2 + soup n. Compare pease-soup n. at pease n. Compounds 2b. In sense 2 due to the fondness ascribed to French Canadians for pea soup, perhaps originally arising from the use of dried peas as provisions during exploratory journeys.
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).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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).
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