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billingsgate

[bil-ingz-geyt, -git] / ˈbɪl ɪŋzˌgeɪt, -gɪt /


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Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate.

From Time Magazine Archive

And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It reads now like very dreary and very vulgar billingsgate.

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




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