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
The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lodge's reply was a fair sample of the literary billingsgate of that controversial age and deserves the oblivion into which it promptly sank.
From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Baldwin, Edward Chauncey
