- A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated
for fish and foul language. - Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language;
vituperation; ribaldry.
- Intense bargainer - One who haggles or is difficult in bargaining. - One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer
and dealer in London vegetable markets.
- Green plover - A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus
cristatus, or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted
for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its
back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the "plover's eggs" of
the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit,
dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.