billingsgate

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There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.

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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.

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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)