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- DictionaryMa·ma's boy
noun
- 1. a boy or man who is excessively influenced by or attached to his mother: informal North American "he's still just a 17-year-old mama's boy being sent to war"
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- Mother's boy
Stock character; man who is excessively attached to his mother
Mother's boy, also commonly and informally mummy's boy or mama's boy, is a derogatory term for a man seen as having an unhealthy dependence on his mother at an age at which he is expected to be self-reliant (e.g. live on his own, be economically independent). Use of this phrase is first attested in 1901. The term mama's boy has a connotation of effeminacy and weakness. The counter term, for women,... Wikipedia
