Word Meanings - BILLINGSGATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language. 2. Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry.

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• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• BILLINGSGATE
  1. A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language. 2. Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry.
• LONDONISM
  A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.
• MARKETER
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• MARKETSTEAD
  A market place. Drayton.
• CELEBRATE
  1. To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High. 2. To honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday.
• COARSELY
  In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
• CELEBRATION
  The act, process, or time of celebrating. His memory deserving a particular celebration. Clarendok. Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass Cath. Dict. To hasten the celebration of their marriage. Sir P. Sidney.
• LONDONIZE
  To impart to a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.
• RIBALDRY
  The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct. The ribaldry of his conversation moved Macaulay.
• ABUSIVELY
  In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.
• LONDON
  The capital city of England. London paste , a paste made of caustic soda and unslacked lime; -- used as a caustic to destroy tumors and other morbid enlargements. -- London pride. A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial
• LONDONER
  A native or inhabitant of London. Shak.
• VITUPERATION
  The act of vituperating; abuse; severe censure; blame. When a man becomes untractable and inaccessible by fierceness and pride, then vituperation comes upon him. Donne.
• MARKETABLE
  1. Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable. 2. Current in market; as, marketable value. 3. Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country.
• PROFANER
  One who treats sacred things with irreverence, or defiles what is holy; one who uses profane language. Hooker.
• CELEBRATED
  Having celebrity; distinguished; renowned. Celebrated for the politeness of his manners. Macaulay. Syn. -- Distinguished; famous; noted; famed; renowned; illustrious. See Distinguished.
• PROFANE
  temple, i. e., without the temple, unholy; pro before + fanum temple. 1. Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as,
• LANGUAGE
  tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
• CELEBRATOR
  One who celebrates; a praiser. Boyle.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• NEWMARKET
  A long, closely fitting cloak.
• INABUSIVELY
  Without abuse.
• SEA LANGUAGE
  The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
• INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
  A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.
• RECELEBRATE
  To celebrate again, or anew. -- Re*cel`e*bra"tion, n.