pea-souper

1. 1.

   a heavy thick yellow fog

   Synonymspea soup

   Broaderfog

Questions about pea-souper

What does pea-souper mean?

pea-souper means "a heavy thick yellow fog".

How many syllables are in pea-souper?

pea-souper has 4 syllables: pe-a--sou-per. The stress falls on "a-".

What is another word for pea-souper?

Close synonyms include pea soup. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pea-souper a common word?

pea-souper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.