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Definition of mother's boy in English: mother's boynoun A boy or man who is excessively influenced by or attached to his mother. Luke is too much of a mother's boy Example sentencesExamples - Jacob is inclined to be a mother's boy, staying near the tents and cooking.
- He was very much the "baby" of the family and the quintessential "mother's boy".
- In one autobiography, he describes himself as a mother's boy who was physically frail and shy but emotionally intense.
- He is a mother's boy: at 28, he still lives with his needy and controlling mother, who maintains him in a childlike state of dependency.
- Dick's a little too much of a mother's boy.
- He is an unabashed mother's boy and has a tattoo with her initials.
- This was his first television play, about an oppressed 'mother's boy'.
- They are single sons, spoiled rotten mother's boys.
- I think I've been trying to prove I'm not a mother's boy.
- In doing this, the boy ceases being a "mother's boy" and becomes a "little man".
- He was quite spoilt, shy, a mother's boy.
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