mammy's boy

mammy's boy (plural mammy's boys)

1. Alternative form of mama's boy.
   • 1879 October 9, M[ary] F[raneis] Butts, “The Little Folks. Mammy’s Boy.”, in Bradford K. Peirce, editor, Zion’s Herald, volume LVI, number 41, Boston, Mass.: Boston Wesleyan Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 326, column 4:

     “Mammy’s boy! mammy’s boy,” shouted the boys at play in the village school-yard. “How did you get away from the old woman’s apron-strings? Come and have a toss? O, no! He’s got to go home and see his mammy.” […] “He looks so much like a girl,” said Jim Howe, one day, “that he ought to be named like one.” Thereupon somebody set up the shout of “Sally,” and after that Sally, or “mammy’s boy,” was his appellation.

   • 2008, Sheila O’Flanagan, chapter 23, in Someone Special, London: Headline Review, →ISBN, page 358:

     ‘Well, thanks a bunch for appreciating how much I try to look after you and our family!’ cried Giselle. ‘You’re such a mammy’s boy, aren’t you? As far as you’re concerned, there’s nobody in the whole world better at anything than your damn mother. […]’

   • 2012, Dean Williams with John F. McDonald, chapter 1, in The Tearaway, London: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 3 and 9:

     Anyway, Bob didn’t like how Andrea and me were so close; he thought it made me soft, like I was a poncey little mammy’s boy and he didn’t want to have no sissy for a son. […] Like I said, Bob considered me to be a mammy’s boy, because I clung to my mother whenever he came home.