mother's boy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mother's boy
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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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
For the hopeless sap, the mother's boy, idealism was all but inevitable.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some mother's boy is resting where the lonely willows weep, And voices waft with waving trees, while angels watch him sleep.
From Poems A Message of Hope by Walton, Mary Alice
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