billingsgate
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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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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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Mrs. Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting.
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The appearance is, that her social walk was wide away from the purlieus of common mundane diabolism and billingsgate.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam