billingsgate

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He above all others commands the greatest flow of billingsgate, and is especially notorious for his arrogant treatment of his customers, and for exacting the uttermost farthing.

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  1. noun Foul, abusive language.

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  1. After Billingsgate, a former fish market in London, England.

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  1. Formerly also Billinsgate, Beelingsgate, from Middle English Bellinges zate, i. e., Billing's gate (cf. Anglo-Saxon Billing, a patronymic name), the name of one of the ancient gates of the city of London, and of a fish-market near it, noted for the foulness of the language used there.
 

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/ˈbɪlɪŋzgeɪt/
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