Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 07:37:10AM -0400, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> When I looked into these expressions in 2005, I found "Locust Valley
> lockjaw" from 1970, "Long Island lockjaw" from 1977, and "Larchmont
> lockjaw" from 1986:

(I followed up to this message with a 1968 quote for "Main Line
lockjaw", that Garson O'Toole had in fact already posted to the list.
Apologies for missing Garson's discovery.)

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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