Words similar to billingsgate
Example sentences for: billingsgate
How can you use “billingsgate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Although the 17th-century Billingsgate no longer exists, Kannur City still does.
The Chinese themselves have not yet got around to denouncing Kosygin and company by name; but that will come soon, no doubt, since the Albanians are already publishing billingsgate attacks on the Brezhnev-Kosygin-Mikoyan trokia.
The language heard there at that time was just like that heard at Billingsgate .
Today we use billingsgate to mean any kind of profane and abusive talk or language.
I find Mary Imber's comments on rhyming slang, O. Abootty's short essay on Kerala Billingsgate, and Charles Lewis' neat exposition of English permutations [XXI, 4] particularly entertaining and informative.
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