mammie's boy

See also: Mammie's boy

English

Noun

mammie's boy (plural mammie's boys)

  1. Alternative form of mama's boy.
    • 1997, Hugh Collins, chapter 4, in Autobiography of a Murderer, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, page 38:
      The doorbell went, and in came my mother. I hadn’t seen her in a long, long time. I wanted to touch her, but that stuff was for mammie’s boys, so I just sat beside her and listened as she talked.
    • 1997, Jack Blocki, “Friends in Need”, in First Tango in Warsaw: Memories of a Polish Pilot in World War 2, Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire: Square One Publications, →ISBN, page 46:
      ‘Just listen to this prophet,’ Jurek seemed to have guessed my motives, ‘he doesn’t smoke either, mammie’s boy, come on, one sip won't hurt you.’
    • 2008, Sheila Stewart, “A Story from Ireland”, in Pilgrims of the Mist: The Stories of Scotland’s Travelling People, Edinburgh: Birlinn, →ISBN, “Wartime Stories” section, page 130:
      The blows were so painful on his sore leg, he was screaming with pain. “Ah, we have a mammie’s boy here,” they said, and they kicked him another six times.
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