Billingsgate : oldest of London’s markets, by the River Thames at the north end of London Bridge. Since 16th century, a fish market – hence “Billingsgate” was used to designate the coarse vituperation of scolding fishwives. It is now also used as a common noun meaning “abuse” or “violent invective”.
... glad to note that except towards the end where his passion of spite and wounded vanity has broken out in a furious yell of hatred, he has tried to curb his natural inclination to couch the logic of Billingsgate in the language of the gutter. We pointed out that Mr. N. N. Ghose's "historical facts"—which he had brought forward to prove his theory that Nationality was possible everywhere except in India ...
... The Secret of the Swaraj Movement 29-June-1907 The paragraphist of Capital in the course of a denunciation full of venom and adorned with one or two choice bits of Billingsgate, describes Swaraj as a far-off divine event to be made possible by our being gradually educated to it under the guidance of the beneficent aliens. We need not trouble about the choleric effusions ...
... in the whole Indian Press. The late Shambhunath Mukherji ironically described Mr. N. N. Ghose as a thundering cataract of law: he might more aptly have described him as a thundering cataract of Billingsgate. He has attempted to answer our criticism in this week's Indian Nation , but the answer is so much befouled with an almost maniacal virulence of abuse that most of our friends have advised us to ...
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