mother's boy

American  

noun

1. mama's boy.

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Etymology

Origin of mother's boy

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

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

For Wat was ever his mother's boy, who constantly took his part as he needed it, and made a great cavalier and King's man of him.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)