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
The public image of Richard Harding Davis, says Biographer Langford, concealed a private tragedy: inside the man's man there lived a mother's boy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Laura was very thankful for this letter, and to think that there was goodness and forgiveness still in her mother's boy.
From The History of Pendennis by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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