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billingsgate

N ถ้อยคำ หยาบคาย  vituperation scurrility profanity

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BILLINGSGATE

BILLINGSGATE Bil "lings *gate `, n.

 

1. A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.

 

2. Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

Billings

Bil lings |ˈbiliNGz ˈbɪlɪŋz | a commercial city in south central Montana, the state's largest city; pop. 103,994 (est. 2008 ).

 

Billingsgate

Bil ¦lings |gate |ˈbɪlɪŋzgeɪt | a London fish market dating from the 16th century. In 1982 the market moved to the Isle of Dogs in the East End.

 

Billings method

Bil lings meth od noun a system for finding the time of ovulation by examining cervical mucus. It can be used as a form of birth control by avoiding sexual intercourse at that time. ORIGIN 1960s: named after Drs. John and Evelyn Billings, who devised the method.

 

Oxford Dictionary

Billings

Bil lings |ˈbiliNGz ˈbɪlɪŋz | a commercial city in south central Montana, the state's largest city; pop. 103,994 (est. 2008 ).

 

Billingsgate

Bil ¦lings |gate |ˈbɪlɪŋzgeɪt | a London fish market dating from the 16th century. In 1982 the market moved to the Isle of Dogs in the East End.

 

Billings method

Bil |lings method noun a system for finding the time of ovulation by examining cervical mucus. It can be used as a form of birth control by avoiding sexual intercourse at that time. ORIGIN 1960s: named after Drs John and Evelyn Billings, who devised the method.