pea‐souperの英語

語源

From pea soup +‎ -er (suffix meaning ‘person または thing connected with’);^[1]

• (dense, yellowish fog”): from the appearance of the fog
• (French-Canadian person): may be from the prevalence of pea soup in French cuisine: compare pea soup (“(スラング, derogatory) French person”).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpiːˌsuːpə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpiˌsupɚ/
• ハイフネーション: pea-soup‧er

名詞

pea-souper (複数形 pea-soupers)

1. (Britain, Canada, informal) A dense, yellowish fog, often mixed with smoke; a pea-soup fog, a smog.

   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.

   • 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 35, in Small Island‎^[1], London: Review, page 346:

     The dust surrounded us like a London pea-souper.

2. (Canada, slang, derogatory) A French-Canadian person, especially a Francophone from the province of Québec.

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

別の表記

• peasouper, pea souper

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参照

Further reading

• pea soup fog on Wikipedia.