billingsgate
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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic 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
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
The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
From Time Magazine Archive
Douglas waxed furious and poured out his "senatorial billingsgate" upon the offenders.
From Life of Stephen A. Douglas by William Gardner
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