billingsgate

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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.

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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.

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Otherwise there might have been heard something approaching to billingsgate.

From Active Service by Crane, Stephen