Meaning of mammie's boy | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“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.”

“‘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.’”

“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.”

“And you need toughening up. You’re a real Mammie’s boy. She used to put lipstick and rouge on you, do you remember that?”

“He looked on Jim as a “Mammie’s boy”, not realizing that it was as much his fault, as he did not take Jim anywhere.”

“True, Sam had clung to her apron strings for a long time, ‘Mammie’s boy’, Daniel had said, concerned the boy would be a sissy, as he put it.”

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