mommie's boy

See also: Mommie's boy

English

Noun

mommie's boy (plural mommie's boys)

  1. (chiefly US) Alternative form of mama's boy.
    • 1995, Nolan Carlson, chapter 5, in Shiner’s Return, Hillsboro, Kan.: Hearth Publishing, →ISBN, page 62:
      Of course, if you two mommie’s boys don’t want to have a little fun on Halloween, go on home and I’ll do it.
    • 2005, Stephens Gerard Malone, [chapter 2], in Miss Elva: A Novel, Toronto, Ont.: Vintage Canada, published 2006, →ISBN, part 1 (1927), page 70:
      Dom studied hard and worked even harder supporting the family after his father’s accident. For every inch of bad in that boy, Jeanine liked to say about Gil, his brother had a yard of the Blessed in him. Gil was making light of strangling himself with an imaginary clerical collar, saying Dom was a mommie’s boy, but no one could see much in the fog.
    • 2017, Karen Traviss, chapter 2, in Black Run (Ringer; 2), →ISBN, page 38:
      "I really wish you'd learn to bark, buddy." Oatie gazed up at her with his best pitiful expression. He'd been Ian's gran's dog and was still something of a mommie's boy.
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