mamma's boy

Questions about mamma's boy

What is another word for mamma's boy?

It depends which mamma's boy you mean. In the sense “a boy excessively attached to his mother; lacking normal masculine interests”, the synonyms are mother's boy, mama's boy. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of mamma's boy?

WordNet records no antonym for mamma's boy. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for mamma's boy come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of mamma's boy

• Full entry for mamma's boyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for mamma's boyWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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