billingsgate
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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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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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In the city whose name has been a synonym for social war and political billingsgate, Champion Deneen warred upon Robert E. Crowe, the State's attorney of Leopold-Loeb fame and Mayor Thompson's entourage.
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Hence, insulting language, and the use of billingsgate, were too hazardous to be indulged where a personal accounting was a strong possibility.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
