pea-soupy

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Also, algal blooms can be associated with pea-soupy, unattractive bodies of water and contribute to hypoxia, a low-oxygen condition that may lead to fish kills.

From Science Daily • Nov. 6, 2023

Emerging, he tossed the unneeded cards into a wastebasket, dropped the pellet through the ballot box's slot, bowed to the mekhum, returned to his canoe and glided away on the pea-soupy Tonle Bassac.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Stop!” cried our tyrant loudly; and the oars which were being dropped into the pea-soupy water were tossed up again and held in a row.

From Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser by Handforth, W.B.

Thick London fog how easy 'tis to dissipate, And make the most pea-soupy day as clear As Bass's brightest beer!

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

It looked most weird and Rembrandtesque in the rich pea-soupy atmosphere, but alas! to-morrow will reveal it in its true colors, dirty and opaque.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie