pea soup

English

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Noun

pea soup (countable and uncountable, plural pea soups)

1. (cooking) A thick soup made with dried peas and various other ingredients.
2. (countable, slang, ethnic slur) A French or French Canadian person.
3. (slang) Thick fog.
4. A greyish green or dull chartreuse colour, like the colour of pea soup.

Adjective

pea soup (comparative more pea soup, superlative most pea soup)

Of the color of pea soup (greyish green or dull chartreuse).

Synonyms

French Canadian

• pea souper
• pea-souper
• peasouper

 

fog

• pea souper
• pea-souper
• peasouper

 

Derived terms

• pea-soup
• pea-souper
• pea-soup fog
• pea-soupy
• thick as pea soup

 

Translations

soup made from peas

• Czech: hrachová polévka f, hrachovka (cs) f
• Dutch: erwtensoep (nl) f, snert (nl) m
• Finnish: hernekeitto (fi), hernerokka (fi), rokka (fi), hernari (fi)
• French: soupe aux pois (fr) f
• Galician: sopa de chícharos
• German: Erbsensuppe (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἔτνος n (étnos)

• Manx: anvroie pishyragh m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ertesuppe m or f, ertersuppe m or f

  Nynorsk: ertesuppe f, ertersuppe f

• Polish: grochówka (pl) f, grochowa (pl) f, zupa grochowa f
• Russian: горо́ховый суп m (goróxovyj sup)
• Swedish: ärtsoppa (sv) c

thick fog

• Finnish: hernerokkasumu (fi)

References

• “pea soup”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.