billingsgate
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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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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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That was Firebrand Danny Cohn-Bendit, leveling a barrage of billingsgate at Herbert Marcuse, the aging Pied Piper of the New Left, who appeared at Rome's Eliseo Theater to give a lecture, "Beyond the One-Dimensional Man."
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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
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A just and rational censure ought to be expressed on them, while we disapprove the constant billingsgate poured on them officially.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
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