billingsgate\BIL-ingz-gayt; -git\, noun:
Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language.
And as someone whose e-mail address appears beneath his column, I'm regularly amazed at the billingsgate people fling when they let their fingers do the talking.Posted by rv at April 14, 2006 03:42 PM to word
--Scot Lehigh, "Let's talk about incivility - please", Boston Globe, April 13, 2006