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pea-soupy

pea-soupy adjective: resembling or characteristic of pea soup.

Adjective

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

  1. Resembling or characteristic of pea soup.
    • The bowels are rather loose; stools of pea-soupy colour; tongue dry and glazed.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...
    • 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.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....

Forms of pea-soupy

comparativemore pea-soupy
superlativemost pea-soupy

Origin of pea-soupy

From pea soup + -y.

Questions about pea-soupy

What does pea-soupy mean?
Pea-soupy means resembling or characteristic of pea soup.
What part of speech is pea-soupy?
Pea-soupy is an adjective.

Words near pea-soupy in the dictionary

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

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