| billingsgate |
| Definition: Extremely coarse and abusive language. Note: According to the OED, "scolding impudent sluts" were called billingsgates. |
| Example: You're a big poo pants! |
| Etymology: The word was coined because of the vulgar and abusive language that was associated with the females working in London's Billingsgate fish market. |
| Oxford English Dictionary: The word's first citation in this sense is from 1652: "With down-right Billingsgate-Rhetoric." (Culpepper Eng. Physic.,) |