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

Walter was ever his mother's boy, and I think his undutiful conduct that night now went hard with him, seeing how the affair had turned out.

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)