mama's boy

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noun

a boy or man showing excessive attachment to or dependence on his mother.

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Also called mother's boy.

Origin of mama's boy

First recorded in 1840–50

Words nearby mama's boy

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In the 90s, it kept gay men out of leadership roles in the Boy Scouts of America.
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“A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.
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This is Bey and Nicki at their most lyrically masochistic, and boy, is it a treat.
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Interviews in Serial (including ones from Adnan) do acknowledge that Jay was known as a resident bad boy at Woodlawn High School.
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A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
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You see, I'd always thought of him as the boy whom Great-aunt Lucia described having seen.
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Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
A look of passion came into the face of the watching boy, and again he fingered his revolver.
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Several times after this the boy and his sisters came to look down into the pig pen.
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mama's boy

A sissy, especially a boy or man excessively attached to his mother. For example, The children called Tom a mama's boy because he ran home with every little problem. This sexist expression has survived despite its pejorative tone. [Colloquial; mid-1800s]

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