mammie's boy

plural mammie's boys

1. alternativeAlternative form of mama's boy.

   ‘Just listen to this prophet,’ Jurek seemed to have guessed my motives, ‘he doesn’t smoke either, mammie’s boy, come on, one sip won't hurt you.’

   1997, Jack Blocki, “Friends in Need”, in First Tango in Warsaw: Memories of a Polish Pilot in World War 2, Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire: Square One Publications, →ISBN, page 46

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   The doorbell went, and in came my mother. I hadn’t seen her in a long, long time. I wanted to touch her, but that stuff was for mammie’s boys, so I just sat beside her and listened as she talked.

   1997, Hugh Collins, chapter 4, in Autobiography of a Murderer, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, page 38

   The blows were so painful on his sore leg, he was screaming with pain. “Ah, we have a mammie’s boy here,” they said, and they kicked him another six times.

   2008, Sheila Stewart, “A Story from Ireland”, in Pilgrims of the Mist: The Stories of Scotland’s Travelling People, Edinburgh: Birlinn, →ISBN, “Wartime Stories” section, page 130

plural Mammie's boys

1. alternativeAlternative form of mama's boy.

   He looked on Jim as a “Mammie’s boy”, not realizing that it was as much his fault, as he did not take Jim anywhere.

   2008 September 17, Jim Higgins, “Sadness and Happiness”, in Shaking, Central Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, →ISBN, page 50

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   And you need toughening up. You’re a real Mammie’s boy. She used to put lipstick and rouge on you, do you remember that?

   1998, Trevor Grundy, chapter 3, in Memoir of a Fascist Childhood, London: Arrow Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 71

   True, Sam had clung to her apron strings for a long time, ‘Mammie’s boy’, Daniel had said, concerned the boy would be a sissy, as he put it.

   2010, Dorothy M. Mitchell, “You Never Know What’s Around the Corner”, in It Doesn’t Rule Me, Brentwood, Essex: Chipmunkapublishing, →ISBN, page 17