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Mammy's boy
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mammy's boy
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Mammy's boy
en mama's boy.
en 1991 December Mary Cummins The Tiger and Pink Gin True to Type: A Collection of Short Stories by Journalists in The Irish Times Dublin Irish Times Books; Sugarloaf Publications 24 https://archive.org/details/isbn_0907011187/page/24/mode/1up 0 907011 18 7 Not much sins you’d have with that Mammy’s boy from the tennis club.
en 2000 Doris Davidson 8 The House of Lyall London HarperCollinsPublishers 120 https://archive.org/details/houseoflyall0000davi_y9t2/page/120/mode/1up 0 00 225892 7 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?
en 2004 Melissa Hill 21 Not What You Think Dublin w:Poolbeg Press 281 https://archive.org/details/notwhatyouthink0000hill_y5d0/page/281/mode/1up 1-84223-170-7 “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.”