peasoup

plural peasoups

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of pea soup.

   […] and to maintain a relatively superior, paternalistic position from which French Canadians are for the most part regarded as 'peasoups' or 'Pepsis,' as fellow citizens requiring benevolent supervision […]

   1993, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, volume 20, page 276

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   [H]e rushes in, and fills himself up with peasoup or salt fish, till he is fit to burst. […] [W]ell, you will not produce among these a pike, or a bowl of peasoup, just because they are there in the kitchen; you will dispense with such common things.

   1905, Lucian of Samosata, translated by H[enry] W[atson] Fowler, “The Way to Write History”, in H. W. Fowler, F[rancis] G[eorge] Fowler, transl., The Works of Lucian of Samosata […], volume II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 119 and 134

   On the evening of the second day we received a small basin of peasoup, and many of us did not get even that. On the third day a piece of bread, less than a pound, was served out to each person, and from that time we began to get peasoup once a day. […] On the fifth day we were roused up at five o’clock in the morning, and after peasoup for breakfast we were taken from Goldap to the town of Angerburg, distant about 40 or 50 kilometres.

   [1916?], “Red Cross Prisoners in Germany”, in The Crimes of Germany: Being an Illustrated Synopsis of the Violations of International Law and of Humanity by the Armed Forces of the German Empire. […], London: […] The Field & Queen (Horace Cox), […], →OCLC, page 91, column 1

   Boody cried angrily: / ― Crickey, is there nothing for us to eat? / Katey, lifting the kettlelid in a pad of her stained skirt, asked: / ― And what’s in this? / A heavy fume gushed in answer. / ― Peasoup, Maggy said. / ― Where did you get it? Katey asked. / ― Sister Mary Patrick, Maggy said. / The lacquey rang his bell. / ― Barang! / Boody sat down at the table and said hungrily: / ― Give us it here! / Maggy poured yellow thick soup from the kettle into a bowl.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 10: Wandering Rocks]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 217

comparative more peasoup · superlative most peasoup

1. alternativeAlternative form of pea soup.

   I sank on my peasoup bed-cover and started to sleep, then sat up.

   1953–1954, Cecil Beaton, “Lecture Tour, 1953–4”, in Richard Buckle, editor, Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926–1974, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, published 1979, →ISBN, page 282

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   Particularly is this opinion held by the Frogeaters’ Conoly,^([sic]) who were present in full force at the play in their peasoup clothes and blistered their hands applauding Le^([sic]) Grande Sarah when she keeled over in the last act and expired.

   1906 April 12, “Bernhardt Snored at Battle Creek […]”, in The Kalamazoo Gazette, 73rd year, number 11, Kalamazoo, Mich., →OCLC, page 11, column 1

   A yellow greenish peasoup appearance is a frequent occurrence in the severer affections of the gallbladder.

   1924 February 13, Max Einhorn, “The Importance of the Direct Examination of Bile in the Diagnosis of Gallbladder Lesions”, in Gregory Stragnell, editor, Medical Journal and Record […], volume CXX, number 1 (2284 overall), New York, N.Y.: A. R. Elliott Publishing Co., published 2 July 1924, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 2

plural Peasoups

1. alternativeAlternative form of pea soup (“a French or French Canadian person”).

   “Bloody Peasoups won’t fight!” my father growled.

   1986, Robert Collins, chapter 6, in The Long and the Short and the Tall: An Ordinary Airman’s War, Vancouver, B.C.: Greystone Books, published 1993, →ISBN, page 62

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   No, nor I ain’t goin’ to kiss nobody’s whiskers: I ain’t a Peasoup.

   1929, John Beames, chapter XVIII, in An Army without Banners, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, published March 1930, →OCLC, page 177

   In Canada, for instance, there is the most impassable race-barrier separating the English Canadians and the French Canadians: on the English side this is interpreted as indicative of a racial superiority, enjoyed by themselves vis-à-vis the “Peasoups.”

   1948, Wyndham Lewis, “Cosmic Society and Cosmic Man”, in America and Cosmic Man, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1949, →OCLC, part 2, page 196