billingsgate
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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Their weapons were “loathsome billingsgate and brutality,” and “sublime bathos.”
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller
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