billingsgate
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On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.
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
Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
It reads now like very dreary and very vulgar billingsgate.
From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury
