billingsgate

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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic 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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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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He was a man of great mental endowments, and in the use of invective, often degenerating into billingsgate, he stood without a rival in American journalism.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper