单词 | mother's darling |
释义 | > as lemmasmother's darling mother's darling n. a favoured or favourite child; (also) = mother's boy n. 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 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. C3v A young Heyre or Cockney, that is his Mothers Darling. 1681 J. Oldham Some New Pieces never Publisht 80 All the soft weeping Loves about thee moan, At once their Mothers darling, and their own. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Loll Mother's loll, a favourite child, the mother's darling. 1857 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (Tauchnitz ed.) I. i. i. 5 He looked like a mother's darling—perhaps he was one. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. ii. [Nestor] 32 That knockkneed mother's darling. 1936 ‘J. Tey’ Shilling for Candles iv. 41 Mother's darlings had those eyes; so, sometimes, had womanizers. 1996 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 31 Mar. c28 In the beginning there was T-ball. Mothers' darlings swatted a rag ball from the top of a rubber pole, then scampered toward first base. < as lemmas |
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