billingsgate

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Nor is he shy about lapsing occasionally into the Yorkshire-accented billingsgate that he has perfected over the years in leading T.U.C.'s toughest negotiations�including British Ford's acceptance of unions at Dagenham during World War II.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting.

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On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.

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It reads now like very dreary and very vulgar billingsgate.

From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford