Definition

Noun: A thick soup made primarily from dried split peas, typically cooked with a base of stock or water and commonly including vegetables such as onions, carrots, and celery.

Usage

This noun refers to a specific type of food, a dish. It is typically used as a countable noun (e.g., a split-pea soup, two split-pea soups) when referring to servings or varieties, but can also be used uncountably to refer to the substance itself. * For lunch, the cafeteria is serving split-pea soup. * She makes the best split-pea soup I've ever tasted. * I'll have a split-pea soup and a sandwich, please.

Examples

• The classic split-pea soup was hearty and warming on the cold winter day.
• This recipe for split-pea soup uses a ham bone for extra flavor.
• After soaking the peas overnight, preparing the split-pea soup is quite simple.

Advanced Usage

• "like split-pea soup": An informal simile used to describe something, often fog or murky water, that is very thick, opaque, and greenish-yellow in color.
  • The fog rolled in from the harbor, thick as split-pea soup.

Variants and Related Words

• Pea soup (noun): A more general term for soup made from peas, which may use whole dried peas instead of, or in addition to, split peas. "Split-pea soup" is a specific kind of pea soup.
• Split peas (noun): The key ingredient; dried peas that have been split in half, which cook faster than whole dried peas.

Synonyms

• Pea soup: The closest synonym, though it is a broader category.
• Potage (noun): A general term for a thick soup, often of French origin. Split-pea soup is a type of potage.

Related Idioms

• "Pea-souper" (noun, chiefly British, informal): A historical idiom for a very thick, often yellowish fog. This idiom relates to the color and density of traditional pea soup, drawing the same comparison as the advanced usage above.
  • In the 19th century, London was famous for its terrible pea-soupers.

Noun

1. made of stock and split peas with onions carrots and celery