shot soup
English
Noun
shot soup (uncountable)
- (nautical, slang, archaic) A weak soup containing whole peas.
- 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
- Beside this, every other day we had what English seamen call "shot soup" — great round peas, polishing themselves like pebbles by rolling about in tepid water.
- 1950, Robert W. Krepps, The Courts of the Lion (page 80)
- They ate in relays, surprised to find their appetites good: they wolfed salt junk and a weak concoction of peas in broth called shot soup.
- 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas