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English
Etymology
From pea soup + -y.
Adjective
pea-soupy (comparative more pea-soupy, superlative most pea-soupy)
- Resembling or characteristic of pea soup.
1862 May 24, “Seamen’s Hospital, ‘Dreadnought.’ Clinical Remarks on Cases of Enteric or Typhoid Fever.”, in The Medical Times and Gazette. A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News., volume I. for 1862, number 621, London: John Churchill, , page 533, column 1:The bowels are rather loose; stools of pea-soupy colour; tongue dry and glazed.
1878 September 16, Joel Cook, “The Great German Watering-Place”, in A Holiday Tour in Europe. Described in a Series of Letters Written for the Public Ledger During the Summer and Autumn of 1878., Philadelphia, Pa.: J B Lippincott & Co., published 1879, →OCLC, page 210: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.
1939 June, H Granville Fell, “ Old Masters at Agnew’s”, in The Connoisseur, with Which Is Incorporated International Studio, volume 103, number 454, London, →ISSN, page 350, columns 1–2:Three small works by Van Goyen himself are included, in his typically subdued and rather pea-soupy colour, which, however, he makes extraordinarily attractive.