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Meanings of mamma's boy in English

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nen emmarat

A boy excessively attached to his mother; lacking normal masculine interests.

nen emmarat
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Examples for "mother's boy"
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No; you must run along to Linda, now, mother's boy.
Theft: A Play In Four Acts
2
George was her boy; Harry was his mother's boy.
The Virginians
3
He is the most ridiculous mother's boy!
Frances Waldeaux: A Novel
4
Jack was his mother's boy, his mother's pet, his mother's darling, his mother's handsomest and brightest child.
Roumanian Fairy Tales
5
He was his mother's boy, but-
Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Ser...
1
And, I believe he would have been such a mama's boy!
Jamaica Observer
2
Anyway, Danny had always been a regular mama's boy.
Phantoms
3
They're entering the world and the message is, don't be a a sissy or a mama's boy.
Feminist dot com
4
So little mama's boy is tired, eh?
The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution
5
The writer was a mama's boy for the first 12 or 13 years of his life.
The new yorker
Usage of mamma's boy in English
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Why, she's-she's no better than other people, you ignorant little mamma's boy.
Active Service
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A tall, shy, priggish, mamma's boy as a teenager, with a bold Roman nose, Updike found his greatest pleasure in drawing and writing.
The Guardian
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