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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic 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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate.
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He above all others commands the greatest flow of billingsgate, and is especially notorious for his arrogant treatment of his customers, and for exacting the uttermost farthing.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns
