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

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One must have read much in Luther, one should have read all of Luther, and his "billingsgate" will assume a different meaning.

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)