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Billingsgate - Word of the Day - Thu Aug 26, 2021

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Entry posted by Myr in Word of the Day August 26, 2021

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billingsgate - (noun) - coarsely abusive language

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I stopped reading the news due to my tendency to issue ever louder streams of billingsgate.

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Posted August 26, 2021

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Billingsgate was a long time London fish market and its inhabitants were infamous for their swearing. This is also the origin of fishwife.

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