billingsgate
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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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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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There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.
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Mrs. Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting.
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The heroic examples of Greek and Roman invective paled before the inexhaustible resources of learned billingsgate stored in the minds of the humanists and theologians.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.