Mammy's boy

See also: mammy's boy

English

Noun

Mammy's boy (plural Mammy's boys)

  1. Alternative form of mama's boy.
    • 1991 December, Mary Cummins, “The Tiger and Pink Gin”, in True to Type: A Collection of Short Stories by Journalists in The Irish Times, Dublin: Irish Times Books; Sugarloaf Publications, →ISBN, page 24:
      Not much sins you’d have with that Mammy’s boy from the tennis club.
    • 2000, Doris Davidson, chapter 8, in The House of Lyall, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 120:
      When would Hamish come to her bed and make them truly husband and wife? Surely he wasn’t such a Mammy’s boy that he’d take weeks to get over her death?
    • 2004, Melissa Hill, chapter 21, in Not What You Think, Dublin: Poolbeg Press, →ISBN, page 281:
      “That woman breastfed Packie as a baby,” she’d told Laura one day, in shocked tones. “It’s small wonder he turned out to be such a Mammy’s boy. […]”
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