plural of souper

(Ireland, historical) Someone who, during the Irish famine, supplied food such as soup to Catholics who converted to Protestantism.

(historical, derogatory) During the Irish Potato Famine, the setting up of schools by non-Roman Catholic Bible societies in which starving Catholic children were fed but were subjected to Protestant religious instruction at the same time.

plural of pea-souper

(Britain, Canada, informal) A dense, yellowish fog, often mixed with smoke; a pea-soup fog, a smog.

A light supper; (especially), an informal dinner party with only a few select guests.