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Peasoup
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peasoup pea soup pea-soup
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en pea soup#Noun a French or French Canadian person.
en 1929 John Beames XVIII An Army without Banners Toronto, Ont. McClelland and Stewart 177 https://archive.org/details/P002661/page/177/mode/1up March 1930 7387051 No, nor I ain’t goin’ to kiss nobody’s whiskers: I ain’t a Peasoup.
en 1948 w:Wyndham Lewis Cosmic Society and Cosmic Man America and Cosmic Man Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company 1949 part 2 196 https://archive.org/details/americacosmicman0000wynd/page/196/mode/1up 1281439 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.”
en 1986 Robert Collins 6 The Long and the Short and the Tall: An Ordinary Airman’s War Vancouver, B.C. w:Greystone Books 1993 62 https://archive.org/details/longshorttallord0000coll_m1m6/page/62/mode/1up 1-55054-113-7 “Bloody Peasoups won’t fight!” my father growled.