language (coarse, offensive, or abusive . . . ) n.: billingsgate
The remarks were what I later came to know as anti-Semitic clichés: about money, noses, ambition, slyness, and all the rest. The tone of this suburban billingsgate was chummy, almost chortling, as if passwords or signs of mutual recognition were being exchanged. (Herb Greer, “An Amateur Jew,” Commentary, 3/1/1995, p. 52.)
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