billingsgate
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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.
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
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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I have no doubt that, if it could have been interpreted, it would have been proven the rankest and most voluble billingsgate ever uttered.
From Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
