(A cant word, borrowed from Bilingsgate in London, a place where there is always a crowd of low people, and frequent brawls and foul language.) Ribaldry; foul language.
"There stript, fair rhet'rick languish'd on the ground, and shameful bilingsgate her robes adorn."
-Dunciad b. iv.
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