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peasouper

/ ˌ辱ːˈːə /

noun

  1. informal.
    dense dirty yellowish fog
  2. a disparaging name for a French Canadian
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The Falcons were grounded in a thick New England peasouper on Sunday night, losing 23-7 in a rematch that had none of the excitement of the Super Bowl the teams took to overtime in February.

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Postwar London of the ’50s had been a dreary place of rationing, bomb sites and “peasouper” fogs.

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“It’s white, not black, green or yellow, as a London peasouper would have been in the 19th century.”

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Singapore’s murky air is still pristine compared with the peasouper choking parts of Sumatra, the big Indonesian island nearby.

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As the investigational peasouper thickens, other characters bob to the surface, croutonishly.

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