Mommy's boy

mommy's boy English Noun en chiefly North America en mama's boy. en 1944 May Hannah Lees The Word You Can’t Say Hygeia 22 5 Chicago, Ill. w:American Medical Association 389 https://archive.org/details/sim_todays-health_1944-05_22_5/page/n58/mode/1up 1 0096-1876 1642988 This happens to most little girls about their fathers in exactly the same way, and whether you call it the “Oedipus Complex” or simply say, “My little boy is such a Mommy’s boy. My little girl is simply mad about her father,” it’s still a fact that there’s a lot of emotional tension there which it’s pretty hard for a small child to know what to do with. en 2008 Brenda Youngerman 1 Hidden Truths New York, N.Y. Eloquent Books part 1 11–12 https://archive.org/details/hiddentruths0000youn/page/11/mode/1up 978-1-60693-125-7 Maybe if you weren’t such a Mommy’s boy she’d be here right now, instead of hooked up to every machine imaginable! That’s where Mommy is…fighting for her life in a hospital bed because you’re such a cry baby! en 2013 w:Christopher J. Yates LXXIV w:Black Chalk London w:Harvill Secker iv 323 https://archive.org/details/blackchalk0000yate/page/323/mode/1up 978-1-84655-728-6 He starts saying things. Oh, don’t worry, you’ll be back, Mommy’s boy. That’s what he kept calling him, Mommy’s boy this, Mommy’s boy that. And you won’t stay away from your mommy for long.