billingsgate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.

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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.

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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 Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)