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pea-souper

Syllables: pea-soup·erUK/ˈpiːˌsuːpə/US/ˈpiˌsupɚ/

pea-souper noun: a dense, yellowish fog, often mixed with smoke; a pea-soup fog, a smog.

pea-souper: a dense, yellowish fog, often mixed with smoke; a pea-soup fog, a smog
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Noun

pea-souper (plural pea-soupers)

  1. (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.
  2. (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!

pea-souper meaning in Tamil

pea-souper in Tamil

திண்ணிய மஞ்சள் நிற மூடுபனி

Synonyms of pea-souper

Forms of pea-souper

pluralpea-soupers
alternative formpeasouper
alternative formpea souper

Origin of pea-souper

From pea soup + -er (suffix meaning ‘person or thing connected with’); * (dense, yellowish fog): from the appearance of the fog * (French-Canadian person): may be from the prevalence of pea soup in French cuisine: compare pea soup (“(slang, derogatory) French person”).

Questions about pea-souper

What does pea-souper mean?
Pea-souper means a dense, yellowish fog, often mixed with smoke; a pea-soup fog, a smog.
What is pea-souper in Tamil?
Pea-souper in Tamil is திண்ணிய மஞ்சள் நிற மூடுபனி. See Pea-souper meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pea-souper?
Pea-souper is a noun.
How do you pronounce pea-souper?
Pea-souper is pronounced /ˈpiːˌsuːpə/ (UK).
What is the plural of pea-souper?
The plural of pea-souper is pea-soupers.

Words near pea-souper in the dictionary

  1. pea-shooters
  2. pea-sized
  3. pea-soup
  4. pea-soup fog
  5. pea-soup fogs
  6. pea-souper
  7. pea-soupers
  8. pea-soups
  9. pea-soupy
  10. pea-time
  11. pea-time is past

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pea-souper (page history and authors); pea-souper (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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