| 单词 | mother's boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmother's boy mother's boy n. a boy or man who is excessively influenced by, or attached to, his mother; a sissy; (also, occasionally) a boy or man who resembles his mother. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > quality of unmanliness > one who is unmanly > who is excessively influenced by, or attached to, his mother mother's darling1592 mama's boy1850 mother's boy1862 mummy's boy1927 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius No. 8. ⁋ 11 Where one would stand it out..twenty chose rather to be fondled up, and call'd mother's nown boys at any expence.] 1862 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 403/2 A mere boy, thin, consumptive, hollow-chested: a mother's-boy, Palmer saw, with fair hair and dreamy eyes. 1880 F. Stevenson Let. July in J. Pope-Hennessy R. L. Stevenson (1974) vii. 142 Louis is, as I know, a mother's boy..and I am sure he looks like you. 1930 D. H. Lawrence Assorted Articles 197 Oh, women, beware the mother's boy! 1945 ‘L. Lewis’ Birthday Murder ii. 25 Stan's happy as he is being supported by his mother. He's a mother's boy. 1989 Dillons Bks. Aug. 11/4 Claridge..has chosen a mother's-boy villain. < as lemmas |
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