mother's boy

1. 1.

   a boy excessively attached to his mother; lacking normal masculine interests

   Synonymsmamma's boymama's boy

   Broaderson

Questions about mother's boy

What does mother's boy mean?

mother's boy means "a boy excessively attached to his mother; lacking normal masculine interests".

What is another word for mother's boy?

Close synonyms include mamma's boy, mama's boy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mother's boy a common word?

mother's boy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.