billingsgate
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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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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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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 appearance is, that her social walk was wide away from the purlieus of common mundane diabolism and billingsgate.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen
