pea-souper
pea-souper · pea-soupers
A dense, yellowish fog, often mixed with smokeA dense, yellowish fog, often mixed with smoke; a pea-soup fog, a smog.
UK/ˈpiːˌsuːpə/US/ˈpiˌsupɚ/
Meaning
2 senses(Canada, UK, informal)A dense, yellowish fog, often mixed with smoke; a pea-soup fog, a smog.
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.
(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!
More definitions
- a heavy thick yellow fog
Translations
3 languagesOrigin
From pea soup + -er (suffix meaning ‘person or thing connected with’);From pea soup + -er (suffix meaning ‘person or thing connected with’);
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