billingsgate
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There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.
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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.
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While illicit lovers, escaped lunatics and stranded Passion players create bedlam, and soft soap is interspersed with billingsgate, the actress and the producer outham, in an effort to outwit, each other.
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Otherwise there might have been heard something approaching to billingsgate.
From Active Service by Stephen Crane
