英语词汇billingsgate的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

billingsgate. Coarse and abusive language, billingsgate is language similar to that once used by the fishwives in the Billingsgate fish market along the River Thames in London. The area was named for whoever built the gate below the London Bridge leading to the old walled city. But who built Billing’s Gate is a matter of controversy. Some historians credit a Mr. Billings (or Billin, or Belin), a builder or famous burgher who owned property thereabouts; others suggest that Billing’s Gate was named for an ancient clan called Billings, or for one Belen (Belinus), a legendary monarch, citing a 1658 map that ascribes it to “Belen, ye 23rd Brittish Kinge.”

词汇	billingsgate
词源	billingsgate. Coarse and abusive language, billingsgate is language similar to that once used by the fishwives in the Billingsgate fish market along the River Thames in London. The area was named for whoever built the gate below the London Bridge leading to the old walled city. But who built Billing’s Gate is a matter of controversy. Some historians credit a Mr. Billings (or Billin, or Belin), a builder or famous burgher who owned property thereabouts; others suggest that Billing’s Gate was named for an ancient clan called Billings, or for one Belen (Belinus), a legendary monarch, citing a 1658 map that ascribes it to “Belen, ye 23rd Brittish Kinge.”
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