April 14, 2006

Word of the Day

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.
--Scot Lehigh, "Let's talk about incivility - please", Boston Globe, April 13, 2006
Posted by rv at April 14, 2006 03:42 PM to word
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