pea-soup
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.44 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of pea soup.
Example Sentences
- "It is great to live in the U.S.A. Here we get the pea soup, while in London they get the pea-soup fog."
- "[…] the Game Boy's energy-efficient pea-soup LCD screen made it the original green machine!"
- "“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."
- "Dinner, Sunday, one bowl of pea-soup, four ounces of bacon, eight of rye bread, and half a bowl of potatoes."
- "The lumber bosses say they must make zample^([sic]) of those thieving pea-soups, so they give me three year for one hundred dollar what was mine!"
- "The dinner consisted of a bowl of pea-soup. It was very nice, and all the more so because we were so very hungry."