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peasouper

peasouper is the alternative form of pea-souper.

Meaning of pea-souper

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.
  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!

Forms of peasouper

pluralpeasoupers

Questions about peasouper

What is peasouper the alternative form of?
Peasouper is the alternative form of pea-souper.

Words near peasouper in the dictionary

  1. Peasleys
  2. Peasmarsh
  3. peasoup
  4. peasoup fog
  5. peasoup fogs
  6. peasouper
  7. peasoupers
  8. peasoups
  9. peastone
  10. peastones
  11. peasweep

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