Billingsgate vs Bummaree - What's the difference?
billingsgate | bummaree |
profane, abusive language; coarse words
To use abusive language towards.
* 1905 , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 177, page 99)
As nouns the difference between billingsgate and bummaree
is that billingsgate is profane, abusive language; coarse words while bummaree is (uk|dated) a porter or dealer at billingsgate market in london.As a verb billingsgate
is to use abusive language towards.billingsgate
English
Noun
- You wouldn't have believed the billingsgate which poured forth from that boy's mouth.
Verb
(en-verb)- On the other hand, the Englishman has the satisfaction of Billingsgating to his heart's content the highest officials: they accept objurgation with spaniel fawning.