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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That was Firebrand Danny Cohn-Bendit, leveling a barrage of billingsgate at Herbert Marcuse, the aging Pied Piper of the New Left, who appeared at Rome's Eliseo Theater to give a lecture, "Beyond the One-Dimensional Man."

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He above all others commands the greatest flow of billingsgate, and is especially notorious for his arrogant treatment of his customers, and for exacting the uttermost farthing.

From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns