Meaning of mammy's boy | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

““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.”

“‘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.[…]’”

“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.”

“Not much sins you’d have⟳ with that Mammy’s boy from the tennis club.”

“When would Hamish come⟳ to her bed and make⟳ them truly husband and wife? Surely he wasn’t such a Mammy’s boy that he’d take⟳ weeks to get⟳ over her death?”

““That woman breastfed Packie as a baby,” she’d told Laura one day, in shocked tones. “It’s small wonder⟳ he turned out to be such a Mammy’s boy.[…]””

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