billingsgate

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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.

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Gleason merely settles in for an extended Honeymooners skit, swinging on the billingsgate with his wife and rolling fried-egg eyes skyward at every silence.

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While illicit lovers, escaped lunatics and stranded Passion players create bedlam, and soft soap is interspersed with billingsgate, the actress and the producer outham, in an effort to outwit, each other.

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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.

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There would soon be fine work, if any notice was taken of their billingsgate and abuse; but all their arrows rebound, and fall harmless to the ground.

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)