What's the difference between billingsgate and scurrility?
Billingsgate
Definition:
(n.) A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.
(n.) Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry.
Example Sentences:
(1) He did not answer questions about Henley Concierge, but said he was invited to the 2013 event, which took place at Old Billingsgate market, City of London.
(2) Billingsgate, for example, raised £250,000 in table charges before the event even began.
(3) The court of common council was voting to abolish "the fellowship of the Billingsgate porters" which has been recognised since 1632.
(4) Meanwhile, between the towers of Canary Wharf and Billingsgate, displacing the water from the dock, the first embryonic Crossrail station has already taken shape.
(5) He added, "as we know, there are more than enough tossers in Billingsgate market".
(6) It is possible to buy UK-caught crayfish, online from the likes of simplycrayfish.co.uk , and markets such as Billingsgate, while Pret and The Big Prawn Company say they would consider selling a line of UK-caught crayfish if there was demand.
(7) He stayed charming at Billingsgate market where I tested his knowledge of our most common commercial fish species, and remained polite and courteous while I hassled him in his constituency office for more ambitious marine protection around the coast of the UK.
(8) "The Billingsgate porters are one of the most ancient workforces in the country and the Corporation of London wants to make them redundant.
(9) The debate about why Labour went wrong and how it can become stronger is of the highest importance in renewing a movement that can resist the power that robbed the Billingsgate porters of their civic inheritance.
(10) Auction proceeds and table charges will bring in directly around £1m, but after Billingsgate last year another £1.1m was registered as donations in the week after the event.
(11) The venue was the former fishmarket at Old Billingsgate.
(12) He turns 60, or as he quips turns 40, this year (a party in Billingsgate is planned), but now has a seven-month-old daughter, Angel, with his girlfriend, Joy Canfield.
(13) The even is in Old Billingsgate market hall, where there is also a live link to New York.
(14) We used a traditional butcher for our meat, and went to Billingsgate market for our fish.
(15) The veteran actor Timothy West has also joined the show as Carter's father Stan, a curmudgeonly and opinionated former Billingsgate fishmonger.
(16) As white-coated staff wheel racks of hanging cured salmon into the vast kilns for smoking, proprietor Lance Forman explains the London Cure method began when a relative discovered fresh wild Scottish salmon at nearby Billingsgate, and developed a cure that complemented its flavour.
(17) He also paid for two tables at last year's Conservative fundraiser at Old Billingsgate market where, according to the guest plan, invitees included U&C chairman Brooks Newmark MP and Anne-Marie Trevelyan, a Tory hopeful who is bidding to win the marginal seat of Berwick-on-Tweed, currently held by the Lib Dems.
(18) There are moments of levity: when Bill Lincoln is giving evidence about his alibi (buying fish at Billingsgate market on Good Friday), it transpires that he is known by friends as “Billy the Fish”; James Creighton, the mate he meets when he has his regular Turkish bath, and who gives evidence on his behalf, is known as “Jimmy Two Baths”.
(19) Smoked salmon is indeed delicious, but wreaks havoc with your ability to charm – difficult to make friends when you smell like the insoles of a Billingsgate fish trader.
(20) Meanwhile the design of its silver pods is offensively indifferent to the dignified buildings, such as Old Billingsgate Market, on which they intrude, and actually do not seem well suited to the events that might go on inside them.
Scurrility
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity.
(n.) That which is scurrile or scurrilous; gross or obscene language; low buffoonery; vulgar abuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are not about press illegality but something mysteriously called "misdemeanour" – that is scurrility, intrusion and unfairness.
(2) They were there to record everything from his despair at the fickleness of his recruits, to the distress of his wife Jools at the way the media had invaded their privacy, with scurrilous rumours of infidelity.
(3) With its combination of scurrilous details (“flask” sized penises and a key witness called Bubba the Love Sponge) and big picture analysis (“this is the biggest First Amendment case in the internet age”), Hogan v Gawker is a classic Denton story.
(4) Jailed in 1971 for his part in producing the scurrilous magazine Oz, he runs the Forest of Dennis, more than 600,000 new trees covering 500 hectares, through a charitable trust.
(5) The flurry of scandal over Oxford University Press stopping its children’s writers from referring to pigs or pork for fear of risking Middle East sales – or the Harper Collins atlases for export that mysteriously omit Israel for the same reason – show how easily freedom slips away unless scurrilous outriders like Charlie Hebdo can keep mocking church and mosque.
(6) Also moving last week: • Switzerland, 26 April: Sion president Christian Constantin says reports that he could sack his fifth coach of the season are scurrilous: "Gattuso is going nowhere, he calls the shots – nothing will be done here without his say so."
(7) Richard Davenport-Hines in his recently published An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo writes that 1963 was the year when "the soapy scum flowed after the sluices of self-righteous scurrility were opened".
(8) Others on the train begin spreading scurrilous rumours that I am travelling in first class, forcing me later to produce my train tickets.
(9) The union vowed to ramp up industrial action, including strikes in the autumn over a range of grievances spanning pay, pensions and workload after passing a motion denouncing "scurrilous attacks, abuse, intimidation and lies" and accusing the government of a "vicious assault" on the profession.
(10) Rather, it will protect members of the public from the more scurrilous abuses, which in my case resulted in the printing of lies and unfounded allegations.
(11) Through the listserv, conference calls were quickly organized among top scientists across the country to discuss how to respond to the news that what was seen as a scurrilous and misleading film was to be given a high-profile airing.
(12) I am not a member or even supporter of the Labour party but your scurrilous coverage has convinced me that your paper no longer lives up to the label.
(13) The justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke , said: "As the law stands, individuals can be the subject of scurrilous rumour and allegation on the web with little meaningful remedy against the person responsible.
(14) "We are instructed to record our clients' complete rejection of the scurrilous allegations made by the applicants in their papers.
(15) What about Damian McBride, Brown's shamed spin doctor, sacked for sending an email suggesting planting scurrilous and untrue rumours about members of the opposition?
(16) McBride was forced to resign as Brown's head of strategy in 2009 after he sent Draper emails containing scurrilous gossip and lies about Conservative MPs as planning for Red Rag took shape.
(17) Whether such scurrilous operations will surface in 2012 might depend on how close the polls are and at present they are tight.
(18) Liddle provokes to the brink of apoplexy, but he rarely conceals his views in insidious campaigns of rumour and scurrility.
(19) 6.36pm BST 77 min : De Sciglio booked for a scurrilous strategic foul aimed at aborting another Uruguay attack.
(20) These days it would be stretching it to suggest that Eastwood's range is quite that broad, his face seemingly fixed in a beatific beam, the sort of blissful countenance that once had him pegged in a scurrilous - and erroneous - piece of showbiz gossip as Stan Laurel's love child.