billingsgate
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There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.
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Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs 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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Hence, insulting language, and the use of billingsgate, were too hazardous to be indulged where a personal accounting was a strong possibility.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
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