"Love muscle"

[Mullins, Bill]

I think I've heard it, in the context of "nuzzle my love muzzle".  Also,
for those who name such things, there is "Russell the love muscle".

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> 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.
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> JL
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> 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.
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> -Wilson Gray
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