Crossword-Solution: BILLINGSGATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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 |
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| 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Quotes with BILLINGSGATE (2)
My father, Arthur, was a fishmonger, first at Billingsgate market and later in Camden Town and Golders Green.
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.'
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1981–2001).