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billingsgate

[bil-ingz-geyt, -git] / ˈbɪl ɪŋzˌgeɪt, -gɪt /


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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.

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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.

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

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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




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