billingsgate
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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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While illicit lovers, escaped lunatics and stranded Passion players create bedlam, and soft soap is interspersed with billingsgate, the actress and the producer outham, in an effort to outwit, each other.
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Nor is he shy about lapsing occasionally into the Yorkshire-accented billingsgate that he has perfected over the years in leading T.U.C.'s toughest negotiations�including British Ford's acceptance of unions at Dagenham during World War II.
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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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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)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.