Crossword-Solution: BILLINGSGATE 12 letters, 18 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Word Word Type Definition
Billingsgate n. A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated
for fish and foul language.
Billingsgate n. Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language;
vituperation; ribaldry.

We have 18 clues for the answer “BILLINGSGATE”

Clue Answers
violent invective 1 answer
Montana entranceway 1 answer
Language in a fish market 1 answer
Coarsely abusive language 1 answer
Foul, vulgar, abusive talk 1 answer
LONDON fish market 1 answer
LONDON market for fish 1 answer
COARSELY GROUND FOODSTUFF 11 answers
INSULTING language 12 answers
Contumely 35 answers
vituperation 48 answers
Obloquy 56 answers
invective 61 answers
Market place 66 answers
Abusive 74 answers
Abuse 85 answers
Objection 90 answers
Language 96 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BILLINGSGATE (5)

When he realized this he lost all his self-possession, and, as the Buffalo Courier put it the next day, "went up and down the platform raving like a Billingsgate fishwife." He lost the debate, and the supply of yellow ribbon left in the surrounding counties was purchased that night to be used in the suffrage celebration that followed.
The Story of a Pioneer Anna Howard Shaw 1995
The fires were ordered thus:— One at the Custom House, one at Billingsgate, one at Queenhith, and one at the Three Cranes; one in Blackfriars, and one at the gate of Bridewell; one at the corner of Leadenhal Street and Gracechurch; one at the north and one at the south gate of the Royal Exchange; one at Guild Hall, and one at Blackwell Hall gate; one at the Lord Mayor’s door in St Helen’s, one at the west entrance into St Paul’s, and one at the entrance into Bow Church.
A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe 1995
Things still prospering, Peace found himself able to remove from Lambeth to Crane Court, Greenwich, and before long to take a couple of adjoining houses in Billingsgate Street in the same district.
A Book of Remarkable Criminals H. B. Irving 1996
What can be more different than the gentry of the west end of this metropolis, and the money-making dwellers in the east? From them I will pass to Billingsgate and Wapping.
Thoughts on Man William Godwin 1996
Next, I went to Billingsgate, in some hope of market-people, but it proving as yet too early, crossed London-bridge and got down by the water-side on the Surrey shore among the buildings of the great brewery.
The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1997

Quotes with BILLINGSGATE (2)

My father, Arthur, was a fishmonger, first at Billingsgate market and later in Camden Town and Golders Green.
David Jason
English is full of Scandinavian words. Margate, Ramsgate, Billingsgate, any town with a 'gate' on it takes their suffix from the Danish word 'gade' which simply means 'street.'
Sandi Toksvig
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1981–2001).