billingsgate

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

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

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

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Nor is he shy about lapsing occasionally into the Yorkshire-accented billingsgate that he has perfected over the years in leading T.U.C.'s toughest negotiations�including British Ford's acceptance of unions at Dagenham during World War II.

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Lodge's reply was a fair sample of the literary billingsgate of that controversial age and deserves the oblivion into which it promptly sank.

From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Baldwin, Edward Chauncey