pea-soupy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.26 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of pea soup.
Example Sentences
- "The bowels are rather loose; stools of pea-soupy colour; tongue dry and glazed."
- "There is not much smell to the water, but its taste is repulsive, having a sort of greasy, weak, pea-soupy flavor, as if they had handed you out the contents of the dishpan."
- "Three small works by [Jan] Van Goyen himself are included, in his typically subdued and rather pea-soupy colour, which, however, he makes extraordinarily attractive."
Etymology
From pea soup + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more pea-soupy (comparative)
most pea-soupy (superlative)