pea-soupy

English

Etymology

From pea soup +‎ -y.

Adjective

pea-soupy (comparative more pea-soupy, superlative most pea-soupy)

1. Resembling or characteristic of pea soup.
   • 1862 May 24, “Seamen’s Hospital, ‘Dreadnought.’ Clinical Remarks on Cases of Enteric or Typhoid Fever.”, in The Medical Times and Gazette. A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News., volume I. for 1862, number 621, London: […] John Churchill, […], page 533, column 1:

     The bowels are rather loose; stools of pea-soupy colour; tongue dry and glazed.

   • 1878 September 16, Joel Cook, “The Great German Watering-Place”, in A Holiday Tour in Europe. Described in a Series of Letters Written for the Public Ledger During the Summer and Autumn of 1878., Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., published 1879, →OCLC, page 210:

     There is not much smell to the water, but its taste is repulsive, having a sort of greasy, weak, pea-soupy flavor, as if they had handed you out the contents of the dishpan.

   • 1939 June, H[erbert] Granville Fell, “[Some Topics of the Moment] Old Masters at Agnew’s”, in The Connoisseur, with Which Is Incorporated International Studio, volume 103, number 454, London, →ISSN, page 350, columns 1–2:

     Three small works by [Jan] Van Goyen himself are included, in his typically subdued and rather pea-soupy colour, which, however, he makes extraordinarily attractive.

Related terms

• pea-souper