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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A boy or man who is considered to be overly close to his mother and often timid or overprotected.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
mamma's boy . - noun A boy excessively attached to his mother; a boy lacking the usual masculine interests; also spelled
mamma's boy .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun idiomatic, derogatory A
male person , especially ayoung man orboy , who is overly attached to or influenced by his mother; asissy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a boy excessively attached to his mother; lacking normal masculine interests
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