billingsgate
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On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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
Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
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He never paused to weigh his words when he assailed an opponent, believing that in politics billingsgate is the gate of success.
From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Matthews, Brander
