Billingsgate Definition

bĭlĭngz-gāt, -gĭt
noun
Foul, abusive language.
American Heritage
Foul, vulgar, abusive talk.
Webster's New World

Profane, abusive language; coarse words.

You wouldn't have believed the billingsgate which poured forth from that boy's mouth.
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Noun

Singular:
billingsgate
Plural:
billingsgates

Origin of Billingsgate

  • After Billingsgate , a former fish market in London, England

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the London, England fishmarket Billingsgate

    From Wiktionary

Billingsgate Sentence Examples

  • Scotch salmon at Billingsgate was then fetching 2s 6d [15p in decimal coinage] a pound wholesale.

  • Scenes of remarkable activity may be witnessed here and at Billingsgate in the early hours of the morning when the stock is brought in and the wholesale distributions are carried on.

  • In 1894 the number of boxes of Scottish salmon delivered at Billingsgate market in London was 15,489, and in 1903 it was 15,103, being more than half of the salmon received then from all parts of Europe, including Irish and English consignments.

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