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Meaning of "peasouper" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PEASOUPER

peasouper  [ˌpiːˈsuːpə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PEASOUPER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Peasouper is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PEASOUPER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

peasouper

Smog

Smog is a type of air pollutant. The word "smog" was made in the early 20th century as a portmanteau of the words smoke and fog to refer to smoky fog. The word was then intended to refer to what was sometimes known as pea soup fog, a familiar and serious problem in London from the 19th century to the mid 20th century. This kind of smog is caused by the burning of large amounts of coal within a city; this smog contains soot particulates from smoke, sulfur dioxide and other components. Modern smog, as found for example in Los Angeles, is a type of air pollution derived from vehicular emission from internal combustion engines and industrial fumes that react in the atmosphere with sunlight to form secondary pollutants that also combine with the primary emissions to form photochemical smog. The atmospheric pollution levels of Los Angeles, Mexico City and other cities are increased by inversion that traps pollution close to the ground. It is usually highly toxic to humans and can cause severe sickness, shortened life or death.

Definition of peasouper in the English dictionary

The definition of peasouper in the dictionary is dense dirty yellowish fog.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PEASOUPER


blooper
ˈbluːpə
BUPA
ˈbuːpə
chalupa
tʃəˈluːpə
cooper
ˈkuːpə
duper
ˈdjuːpə
grouper
ˈɡruːpə
hooper
ˈhuːpə
looper
ˈluːpə
pupa
ˈpjuːpə
rype
ˈruːpə
snooper
ˈsnuːpə
souper
ˈsuːpə
stupa
ˈstuːpə
stupor
ˈstjuːpə
super
ˈsuːpə
super-duper
ˈsuːpəˈduːpə
swooper
ˈswuːpə
trooper
ˈtruːpə
whooper
ˈwuːpə
zupa
ˈzjuːpə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PEASOUPER

peasant
peasantry
peasanty
peascod
pease
pease pudding
pease-brose
peasecod
peashooter
peat
peat bog
peat moss
peat pot
peat reek
peatary
peatland
peatman
peatship
peaty

WORDS THAT END LIKE PEASOUPER

chirruper
copper
couper
developer
dispauper
gauper
larruper
newspaper
paper
pauper
pepper
per
proper
scauper
skyscraper
trouper
upper
wallpaper
whisper
yauper

Synonyms and antonyms of peasouper in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «peasouper» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PEASOUPER

Find out the translation of peasouper to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of peasouper from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «peasouper» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

peasouper
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

peasouper
570 millions of speakers

English

peasouper
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

peasouper
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

peasouper
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

peasouper
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

peasouper
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

peasouper
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

peasouper
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Peasouper
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

peasouper
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

peasouper
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

peasouper
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Peasouper
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

peasouper
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

peasouper
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पीसॉपर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

peasouper
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

peasouper
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

peasouper
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

peasouper
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

peasouper
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

peasouper
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

peasouper
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

peasouper
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

peasouper
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of peasouper

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PEASOUPER»

The term «peasouper» is barely ever used and occupies the 199.424 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PEASOUPER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about peasouper

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PEASOUPER»

Discover the use of peasouper in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to peasouper and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Fog That is Darkest, The Fog in My Heart
The London fog was a peasouper, was so thick that a person could feel it cling like mud hanging in the air. The fog was a miasma of pollution that was exhaled vilely from the factories and the stacks, from the gas works and the power stations , ...
Zekria Ibrahimi
2
The Adventures of Young Victor Huber
“Frog”, “PeaSouper”, “Canuck”. Victor always kind of liked the sound of these and so did most of his friends. After all, he was a “Frog”. Hewasa “PeaSouper”. He was a “Canuck”. He was of French Canadian descent. So were allhis friends and  ...
Richard T. (Dick) Miller, 2009
3
Practical Theatre: A Post-16 Approach
In Peasouper, a lot of the piece finds its clarity through the physical jokes and the repetition of those images that are transferred and reused. At what stage would they come in? They come in very early. For example, we wanted to cross three ...
Sally Mackey, 1997
4
Royce's Powerboating Illustrated
Heavy blanket of moisture particles - If a light fog exists and the humidity climbs to 100%, a peasouper can follow. • WARNING-a light fog can lift with excellent visibility as humidity increases, with a peasouper moving in. • Time lag proved ...
Patrick M. Royce, 1994
5
Stage Lighting - the technicians guide: An on-the-job ...
Dryice – Peasouper A Peasouper uses the original method of creating lowlying fog by lowering solid (frozen –78.5°) carbon dioxide in a basket into boiling water which produces steam loaded CO2 gas providing a lowlying fog. n Dry ice only ...
Skip Mort, 2013
6
Royce's Sailing Illustrated: The Sailor's Bible Since 1956
If a light fog developed in your area, the peasouper was over the hill or a couple of miles away. A medium fog could lift at night. If visibility was suddenly above normal, a peasouper would soon move in, with the short visibility period nicknamed ...
‎1998
7
Victorian London's Middle-class Housewife: What She Did All Day
... illnesses of every sort.26 When the gases and soot particulates combined with discharges from the Essex and Kentish marshes during the winter, the result was an almost impenetrable fog, the proverbial "peasouper" of fact and fiction.
Yaffa Draznin, 2001
8
The Accidental Immigrant
... I was leaving London, lost in a thick yellowish-gray fog—understandably called a peasouper by the locals—with visibility reduced to several paces. I spent the next five months in Brighton, another holiday resort, but this time on the Channel.
Jerzy Glowczewski
9
The Odd Women
George Gissing Patricia Ingham. choking darkness: a thick yellow fog generated by coalburning was common in London until legislation was imposed which banned it. Sometimes known as a peasouper or 'a London peculiar'. 'The City of ...
George Gissing, Patricia Ingham, 2000
10
Bloodstoppers & Bearwalkers: Folk Traditions of Michigan's ...
But the color of the Canadiens has dyed the land, for there is no such thing as a drab "peasouper." At least I never met one. For one thing, all Canadiens brim over with fearful superstitions, of loup-garou transformations, black Bibles, visits of ...
Richard Mercer Dorson, James P. Leary, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PEASOUPER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term peasouper is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Thick fog diverts Royal Flying Doctor to Rottnest, other Perth flights …
A RFDS spokesperson said the flight, which orginated in the state's north, was redirected to the island runway because of the peasouper ... «WA today, Jul 15»
2
For A Summery Snack, Eat Urban Air Pollution In The Form Of A …
... different kind of air pollution: a "classic London peasouper," the Los Angeles atmosphere circa 1950, a present-day air-quality warning event ... «Co.Exist, May 15»
3
Smog meringue, anyone? Find out what pollution tastes like
The smog tasting cart will serve meringues in four flavours: the London peasouper; 1950s Los Angeles; present-day Atlanta; and Central Valley, California, ... «South China Morning Post, May 15»
4
Poems by JH Prynne
The storytelling de la Mare seems the last poet one would associate with Prynne, whose reputation for obscurity precedes him like a peasouper ... «The Sunday Times, May 15»
5
London Food History: London Particular
Unimaginably dense and the cause of many a death, it was known variously as pea soup fog, peasouper fog, London fog and London ... «Londonist, Feb 15»
6
Barack Obama's message to India: Clean political set-up for clean …
Fans of Sherlock Holmes will remember the 'peasouper' fogs in 19th century London. Japan went through a similar phase in the 1980s, and ... «Economic Times, Jan 15»
7
Sooty and sweep: how the Victorians cleaned up the country
Other peasouper-puncturing revelations: George Jennings's public toilets at the Great Exhibition of 1851 neither gave us the phrase “to spend a ... «New Statesman, Jan 15»
8
Dense fog across UAE... in Readers' pictures
Discussions; Likes0. Ali Keshmiri via Instagram. January 7 2015 11:11 PM. #morefog #dxb #dubai #dubaifog #morefog #morning #peasouper. «Emirates 24/7, Jan 15»
9
Miss Carter's War by Sheila Hancock, review: 'history unearthed to …
Particular details – peasouper fogs, Casa Pupo rugs – identify the vanished era of her own youth. But the book also vents opinions about the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 14»
10
Tiananmen Square 25 Years On: Dealing With Discontent
Much of the country chokes under a toxic peasouper, water supplies are becoming extremely polluted, food safety is becoming an increasing ... «the Diplomat, Jun 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Peasouper [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/peasouper>. May 2024 ».
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