Mumma's boy

See also: mumma's boy

English

Noun

Mumma's boy (plural Mumma's boys)

  1. (chiefly UK) Alternative spelling of mama's boy.
    • 1959, Dorothy Hewett, chapter 4, in Bobbin Up (Virago Modern Classics; 172), London: Virago Press, →ISBN, pages 29 and 38:
      “Ah, he’s all piss and wind like a barber’s cat . . . a real Mumma’s boy.” […] “Ah, you’re not a bad poor bastard,” she sighed. “But you don’t know nothin’. You’re just a poor, inoffensive Mumma’s boy.”
    • 2010, Miranda Lee, chapter 4, in A Night, a Secret…a Child (Harlequin Presents; 2921), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 34:
      Unfortunately—or perhaps fortunately—there weren’t too many local men around Serina’s age who weren’t already married, or Mumma’s boys, or simply too unattractive for words.
    • 2021, Disha [pseudonym; Dinesh Sharma], “The Astrology Game”, in Spoken Silence, Chennai, Tamil Nadu: Notion Press, →ISBN:
      He was a Mumma’s boy as everyone said, and we saw this daily. He wouldn’t imagine himself without his mother at home, though he would be out for a major part of the day.
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