mother's boy

American  

noun

1. mama's boy.

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Etymology

Origin of mother's boy

First recorded in 1875–80

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Example Sentences

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mother's boy

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

When Brace finds that her husband is a mother's boy and that her own religious conversion was only an effort "to fake something," she sheds both.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then she drew down the sheet, gave a long shivering sigh of relief, saying softly: 'Not my son, thank God! but some mother's boy.'

From Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

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