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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lodge's reply was a fair sample of the literary billingsgate of that controversial age and deserves the oblivion into which it promptly sank.
From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Baldwin, Edward Chauncey
