Mammie's boy

See also: mammie's boy

English

Noun

Mammie's boy (plural Mammie's boys)

  1. Alternative form of mama's boy.
    • 1998, Trevor Grundy, chapter 3, in Memoir of a Fascist Childhood, London: Arrow Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 71:
      And you need toughening up. You’re a real Mammie’s boy. She used to put lipstick and rouge on you, do you remember that?
    • 2008 September 17, Jim Higgins, “Sadness and Happiness”, in Shaking, Central Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, →ISBN, page 50:
      He looked on Jim as a “Mammie’s boy”, not realizing that it was as much his fault, as he did not take Jim anywhere.
    • 2010, Dorothy M. Mitchell, “You Never Know What’s Around the Corner”, in It Doesn’t Rule Me, Brentwood, Essex: Chipmunkapublishing, →ISBN, page 17:
      True, Sam had clung to her apron strings for a long time, ‘Mammie’s boy’, Daniel had said, concerned the boy would be a sissy, as he put it.
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