adj
Meaning 1
Of the color of pea soup (greyish green or dull chartreuse).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Phrase guide
pea soup
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noun
Meaning 2
A thick soup made with dried peas (often split peas) and various other ingredients.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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noun
Meaning 3
A French or French Canadian person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, ethnic, slang, slur
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Synonyms: pea-souper
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Thick fog.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pea-souper, pea-soup fog
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A greyish green or dull chartreuse colour, like the colour of pea soup.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
a thick soup made of dried peas (usually made into a puree)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: soup
noun
Meaning 7
a heavy thick yellow fog
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pea-souper
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fog
History
Etymology
From pea + soup. Doublet of pisupo.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: hrachová polévka — soup made from peas
- Czech: hrachovka — soup made from peas
- Dutch: erwtensoep — soup made from peas
- Dutch: snert — soup made from peas
- Finnish: hernekeitto — soup made from peas
- Finnish: hernerokka — soup made from peas
- Finnish: rokka — soup made from peas
- Finnish: hernari — soup made from peas
- French: soupe aux pois — soup made from peas
- Galician: sopa de chícharos — soup made from peas
- German: Erbsensuppe — soup made from peas
- Greek: μπιζελόσουπα (bizelósoupa) — soup made from peas
- Greek: σούπα φάβας (soúpa fávas) — soup made from peas
- Ancient Greek: ἔτνος (étnos) — soup made from peas
- Manx: anvroie pishyragh — soup made from peas
- Norwegian Bokmål: ertesuppe — soup made from peas
- Norwegian Bokmål: ertersuppe — soup made from peas
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ertesuppe — soup made from peas
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ertersuppe — soup made from peas
- Polish: grochówka — soup made from peas
- Polish: grochowa — soup made from peas
- Polish: zupa grochowa — soup made from peas
- Russian: горо́ховый суп (goróxovyj sup) — soup made from peas
- Swedish: ärtsoppa — soup made from peas
- Finnish: hernerokkasumu — thick fog
- Polish: gęsta mgła — thick fog