pea soup

/'pi:'su:p/

Thân thiện

A bowl of hot pea soup sits on a wooden kitchen table.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A thick, dense, yellowish fog: A type of heavy fog, historically common in industrial cities, characterized by its yellow or brownish color, often caused by air pollution.
   • A thick soup made from dried peas: A hearty soup where dried peas are the main ingredient, typically cooked until soft and often pureed to a thick consistency.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Fog):
  • The pea soup was so thick that drivers had to use their headlights at noon.
  • London was once famous for its choking pea soup fogs, known as "pea-soupers."
• Noun (Soup):
  • For dinner, we had a warm bowl of pea soup with chunks of ham.
  • Traditional pea soup is a simple, filling dish made from dried split peas.

Advanced Usage

• "pea-souper": An informal, chiefly British term for a very thick, yellowish fog.
  • The city came to a standstill during the terrible pea-souper.

Variants and Related Words

• Pea-souper (n): A synonym for a dense, yellowish fog.
• Split pea soup (n): A more specific term for the soup, indicating the type of pea used.

Synonyms

• Fog: A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere.
• Puree: A smooth, creamy substance made of liquidized or crushed fruit or vegetables.

Related Phrases

• As thick as pea soup: An idiom used to describe something very dense or impenetrable, most commonly fog, but sometimes extended to other contexts like mystery or plot.
  • The fog off the coast was as thick as pea soup.
  • The plot of that novel is as thick as pea soup; I can't follow it.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a heavy thick yellow fog
2. a thick soup made of dried peas (usually made into a puree)

Từ đồng nghĩa

• pea-souper