Meanings
- humorousnonstandardA representation of the local pronunciation of Long Island, in which word-final ⟨ng⟩ is pronounced /ŋɡ/ rather than /ŋ/.
I'm out in Lawn Guyland for the summer at my dad's place at the beach.
2010, David Gordon, The Serialist: A Novel, page 3273 more examples
Trudi still had a German accent, but Liesl and Fritz were perfect New Yorkers who said bold and toid, Noo Joysey, Lawn Guyland, and were adopting youse from the Irish.
1941, William James Blake, The Copperheads, page 95Dr. Roth, upon moving his family to Steppingstone Harbor two years earlier, had claimed that there would be hell to pay if Nancy and her little sister Courtney ever picked up the typical Lawn Guyland accent.
2000, T. C. Gardstein, Circuit, page 49Or, heaven help us, a Lawn Guyland accent—that squawking horror of a dialect that gave the Guyland its nickname!
2016, Andrew Klavan, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ, page 11
Origin
A humorous exaggeration of the local dialect pronunciation of Long Island.
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