"Love muscle"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Don't know about "love muzzle," Wilson.  Word is quite unfamiliar to me.  The implied ordnance metaphor isn't very apropos, all things being considered.


JL

Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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HDAS dates this to at least 1958. I didn't hear it till 1960. However,
FWIW, my "informant," a white sailor from Camden, NJ, told me that I
was overcorrecting - or words to that effect. According to him, the
proper term is "love _muzzle_," which is not in HDAS.

-Wilson Gray


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