billingsgate
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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
One must sometimes stand speechless before a subject, else burn his lips with blasphemy or befoul them with billingsgate.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper
