billingsgate
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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.
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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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The two women recommenced their billingsgate, the boy stuttered, the soldiers laughed, and the dog howled.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de
