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

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

(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.

Alternative form of soup bone

plural of soupbone

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