Peasoupとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From pea +‎ soup. Doublet of pisupo.

発音

名詞

pea soup (countable and uncountable, plural pea soups)

1. (Should we delete this sense?) (cooking) A thick soup made with dried peas (often split peas) and various other ingredients.
2. (countable, slang, ethnic slur) A French or French Canadian person.

   Alternative form: Peasoup

   Synonym: pea-souper

3. (slang) Thick fog.

   Synonyms: pea-souper, pea-soup fog

4. A greyish green or dull chartreuse colour, like the colour of pea soup.

別の表記

• pea-soup (dated)
• peasoup

派生語

派生した語

• → Samoan: pisupo
  • → English: pisupo

形容詞

pea soup (comparative more pea soup, superlative most pea soup)

1. Of the color of pea soup (greyish green or dull chartreuse).

   Alternative forms: pea-soup, peasoup

参照

• “pea soup”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

名詞

pea-soup (countable and uncountable, plural pea-soups)

1. Dated form of pea soup.
   • 1833, [Frederick Marryat], “O’Brien’s Good Advice—Captain Kearney Again Deals in the Marvellous”, in Peter Simple. […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 266:

     “I’m afraid, gentlemen, you will not have a very grand dinner,” observed the captain, as the steward removed the plated covers of the dishes; but when on service we must rough it out how we can. Mr. O’Brien, pea-soup? I recollect faring harder than this through one cruize, in a flush vessel.

   • 1880 August 3, “Prison Life in Norway: A Visit to the Penitentiary of Bergen. […]”, in The New York Times‎, volume XXIX, number 9017, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 4:

     Dinner, Sunday, one bowl of pea-soup, four ounces of bacon, eight of rye bread, and half a bowl of potatoes.

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   • 1933 June 17, Aimee D. Linton, “His Big Tall Trees”, in The Toronto Star Weekly, 24th year, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 2, page 3, columns 1–2:

     The lumber bosses say they must make zample of those thieving pea-soups, so they give me three year for one hundred dollar what was mine!

   • 1961 February 3, Mary Ann Guesford, quotee, “The Good Old Days? ‘Rubbish’ Says Mary Guesford (84)”, in The Wanstead & Woodford Guardian, volume LXXXIX, number 4743, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 3:

     The dinner consisted of a bowl of pea-soup. It was very nice, and all the more so because we were so very hungry.