Definitions
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- noun UK, Canada, informal A
dense ,yellowish fog . - noun Canada, slang, derogatory A French-Canadian person, especially a
Francophone from theprovince ofQuébec .
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- noun a heavy thick yellow fog
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Examples
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TS Eliot, who would have experienced many a pea-souper, echoes Dickens's sense of fog as invader in The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock.
Culture flash: fog 2011
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Surrounded by red brick houses, topped off by the gray sky, with leftover fog from a pea-souper, which had virtually imprisoned us in the flat for a couple of days.
One For The Table: Tracy Tynan on Flapjacks - The British Madeline 2010
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The infamous London yellow fog and occasionally, a Melbourne fog was called a pea-souper after this:
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The infamous London yellow fog and occasionally, a Melbourne fog was called a pea-souper after this:
Archive 2004-06-01 2004
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The infamous London yellow fog and occasionally, a Melbourne fog was called a pea-souper after this:
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As soon as an obstacle looms up, telegraph poles, trees or rising ground, I have to pull on the joystick and instantly run into an impenetrable pea-souper.
Stuka Pilot Rudel, Hans-Ulrich 1973
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Two of them, both male, were almost beside themselves with the joyous adventure of getting home through London in a real pea-souper.
The Tiger in the Smoke Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1952
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On March 13 there was a tremendous fall of snow, and worst "pea-souper" we had had during the previous year.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
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A good start is crucial in a five-match campaign and the Scots make one this weekend, with Dan Parks kicking goals from all angles and England disappearing into a pea-souper of paranoia, born of callowness.
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The pea-souper fogs that once defined our capital city have long vanished, the last straw being the so-called Great Smog of 1952, when a thick cloud of pollution settled over London and penetrated deep into its inhabitants 'lungs for five days.
Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2010
inktree commented on the word pea-souper
super!
May 4, 2009
bilby commented on the word pea-souper
Don't eat yellow fog.
March 30, 2016