Mommy's boy

See also: mommy's boy

English

Noun

Mommy's boy (plural Mommy's boys)

  1. (chiefly US) Alternative form of mama's boy.
    • 1944 May, Hannah Lees, “The Word You Can’t Say”, in Hygeia, volume 22, number 5, Chicago, Ill.: American Medical Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 389, column 1:
      This happens to most little girls about their fathers in exactly the same way, and whether you call it the “Oedipus Complex” or simply say, “My little boy is such a Mommy’s boy. My little girl is simply mad about her father,” it’s still a fact that there’s a lot of emotional tension there which it’s pretty hard for a small child to know what to do with.
    • 2008, Brenda Youngerman, chapter 1, in Hidden Truths, New York, N.Y.: Eloquent Books, →ISBN, part 1, pages 11–12:
      Maybe if you weren’t such a Mommy’s boy she’d be here right now, instead of hooked up to every machine imaginable! That’s where Mommy is…fighting for her life in a hospital bed because you’re such a cry baby!
    • 2013, Christopher J. Yates, chapter LXXIV, in Black Chalk, London: Harvill Secker, →ISBN, section IV, page 323:
      He starts saying things. Oh, don’t worry, you’ll be back, Mommy’s boy. That’s what he kept calling him, Mommy’s boy this, Mommy’s boy that. And you won’t stay away from your mommy for long.
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