billingsgate
Example Sentences
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.
From Time Magazine Archive
And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
From Time Magazine Archive
His prose is as lyrical as his verse, and his praise and blame both in excess—dithyrambic laudation or affluent billingsgate.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
