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单词 pea-souper
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Definition of pea-souper in English:

pea-souper

noun piːˈsuːpə
British informal
  • A very thick yellowish fog.

    he was alone in one of London's infamous pea-soupers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • St Mary Le Strand is small and filthy on the outside from centuries of pea-soupers, coal dust and modern day pollution.
    • Not only that, it began in a pea-souper of a fog, caused by the smoke from the pre-match fireworks.
    • The warm Easter weather last week resulted in a thick pea-souper one morning.
    • A perpetual pea-souper reduces vision to a few feet.
    • Since the introduction of cleaner fuels, killer pea-soupers have been consigned to the past.
    • The forecaster said the reason for the pea-souper was a combination of low hanging cloud, substantial amounts of of ground water and still nights.
    • I arrived a bit late due to a pea-souper in London airport on the way through.
    • The prevalence of pea-soupers, as they were known, was one of the reasons that London came to be known as The Smoke.
    • I posted earlier about there being a pea-souper outside today.
    Synonyms
    mist, mistiness, fogginess, haar, smog, murk, murkiness, haze, haziness, gloom, gloominess

Rhymes

blooper, cooper, Cowper, duper, grouper, Hooper, looper, pupa, scooper, snooper, stupa, stupor, super, trooper, trouper, whooper
 
 
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