Meaning of billingsgate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Profane, abusive language; coarse words.
2. A ward of the City of London, Greater London, England.

Examples

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

“These "flytings" consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants.”

“And vppon fridaye the morowe after brought it vpp to Billynges gate in London”

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