pea soup

noun

1. a thick soup made of dried peas (usually made into a puree) (Freq. 2)

• Hypernyms: ↑soup

2. a heavy thick yellow fog

• Syn: ↑pea-souper

• Hypernyms: ↑fog

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noun

1. : a thick soup made of dried green or yellow peas usually pureed

2. or pea-souper : a heavy dull yellow fog

a wall of the thickest pea soup I had ever seen — H.A.Chippendale

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1. a thick soup made from split peas.

2. Informal. a dense, yellow fog.

[1705-15]

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pea soup, pea-souper, pea-soupy see ↑pease-soup under ↑pease¹

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Main Entry: ↑pea

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peaseˈ-soup or pea soup noun

1. Soup made from pease

2. A thick yellow heavy-smelling fog (also peaˈ-soupˈer; informal)

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Main Entry: ↑pease

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n.

1) soup made from peas, esp. a thick, yellowish-green soup made from dried split peas

2) a thick, yellowish fog

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noun [noncount]

1 : a thick soup made of boiled dried peas

2 informal

— used to describe heavy and thick fog

fog as thick as pea soup = pea-soup fog