Meaning of pea-souper | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dense, yellowish fog, often mixed with smoke; a pea-soup fog, a smog.
   British, Canada, informal
2. A French-Canadian person, especially a Francophone from the province of Québec.
   Canada, derogatory, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“A man bumped into a lamp post during a pea-souper; he immediately apologised to it, not realising what it was.”

“I can hear the bell on the buoy, but I can’t see anything in this pea-souper.”

“The dust surrounded us like a London pea-souper.”

“Those pea-soupers are the worst drivers on the road!”

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