mumma's boy

plural mumma's boys

1. UKalternativeAlternative spelling of mama's boy.

   “Text Mum. Tell her to quietly excuse herself and come here.” / “I’m not a mumma’s boy, dammit.” As the youngest, Bryce and his mum did share a special bond. At times, it embarrassed him.

   2015, Vonnie Davis, A Highlander’s Passion (Highlander’s Beloved; 2), New York, N.Y.: Loveswept, →ISBN

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   Good manners are important skills to learn and it’s not like you have to be a well-behaved mumma’s boy around girls. Some girls wouldn’t even be into guys like that. But it’s good to know when it’s appropriate to have good manners and when you can kick back and forget about that stuff.

   2011, Jonathan Toussaint, “What not to do”, in How to Talk to Girls, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Getting to Know Her), page 96

   [S]he hugged me and nurtured me, and told me everything was going to be all right. Right, like any mother would do, but for me, when I went up in my room that night, somehow I equated the fact that you know, I was like a mumma’s boy, somehow equated a sissy, and that was the reason why I got beat up.

   2016, Marieke Liem, quoting Keith, “Lives Spiraling out of Control”, in After Life Imprisonment: Reentry in the Era of Mass Incarceration (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law), New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 57

plural Mumma's boys

1. UKalternativeAlternative spelling of mama's boy.

   He was a Mumma’s boy as everyone said, and we saw this daily. He wouldn’t imagine himself without his mother at home, though he would be out for a major part of the day.

   2021, Disha [pseudonym; Dinesh Sharma], “The Astrology Game”, in Spoken Silence, Chennai, Tamil Nadu: Notion Press, →ISBN

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   “Ah, he’s all piss and wind like a barber’s cat . . . a real Mumma’s boy.” […] “Ah, you’re not a bad poor bastard,” she sighed. “But you don’t know nothin’. You’re just a poor, inoffensive Mumma’s boy.”

   1959, Dorothy Hewett, chapter 4, in Bobbin Up (Virago Modern Classics; 172), London: Virago Press, →ISBN, pages 29 and 38

   Unfortunately—or perhaps fortunately—there weren’t too many local men around Serina’s age who weren’t already married, or Mumma’s boys, or simply too unattractive for words.

   2010, Miranda Lee, chapter 4, in A Night, a Secret…a Child (Harlequin Presents; 2921), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 34