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
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
"There, there, Davie, mother's boy, it's all right"—smoothing the hair away from the hot brow—"we can have the garden party another day, and then perhaps there'll be all the more pleasure and good time."
From Five Little Peppers and their Friends by Sidney, Margaret
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