| 单词 | mama's boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmama's boy mama's boy n. = mother's boy n. at mother n.1 Compounds 5b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > quality of unmanliness > one who is unmanly > who is excessively influenced by, or attached to, his mother mother's darling1592 mama's boy1850 mother's boy1862 mummy's boy1927 1850 C. M. Yonge Henrietta's Wish xiii. 183 I would not give a farthing for Fred if he was always to be the mamma's boy you would make him. 1861 C. M. Yonge Young Step-mother xxiii. 336 It might be no great harm if Maurice were a tame mamma's boy. 1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 141 Yah..go on then, mamma's boy. If he goes swimming he'll get his head wet and then he'll get a licking. 1967 A. M. Stein Executioner's Rest vi. 100 Who was this Erridge? He was mama's boy, and if you don't know the kind of trouble mama's boy tourists go looking for when they're loose on the shores of the Mediterranean, you just haven't travelled. 1977 Rolling Stone 5 May 44/3 Anyway, all the evidence pointed to a relatively clean-cut kid; at 21, practically a mama's boy. 1992 New Republic 10 Aug. 35/2 Other boys laughed at him for his glasses, his piano lessons, his bookishness, and above all for being such a mama's boy. < as lemmas |
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