mother's boy

American  

noun

1. mama's boy.

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Etymology

Origin of mother's boy

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Tom is smooth and opportunistic, a pianist, a mother’s boy and, with deliberate dissonance, a dedicated wolf.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2018

But between the ears, Williams was not much different to the self-proclaimed "mother's boy" who left Auckland for Australia at the age of 15.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2013

He was “more of a mother’s boy than a father’s boy,” who lived at home until he met her, she said.

From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2011

Like many a romantic swashbuckler of fiction, Ches began his life in gentler circumstances�as a brilliant, somewhat slack-jawed mother's boy named John Donald Merrett.

From Time Magazine Archive

He said he didn't see them, that Celas Neal saw them and the doctor's mother's boy brought the message.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration