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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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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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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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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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)