billingsgate
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Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate.
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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
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The object of all this billingsgate is a devoutly religious�and highly litigious�Quaker who has never been known to fire a shot, lift his fist, or even raise his soft voice in anger.
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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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His prose is as lyrical as his verse, and his praise and blame both in excess—dithyrambic laudation or affluent billingsgate.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
