mammie's boy

Example Sentences

• "The doorbell went, and in came my mother. I hadn’t seen her in a long, long time. I wanted to touch her, but that stuff was for mammie’s boys, so I just sat beside her and listened as she talked."
• "‘Just listen to this prophet,’ Jurek seemed to have guessed my motives, ‘he doesn’t smoke either, mammie’s boy, come on, one sip won't hurt you.’"
• "The blows were so painful on his sore leg, he was screaming with pain. “Ah, we have a mammie’s boy here,” they said, and they kicked him another six times."
• "And you need toughening up. You’re a real Mammie’s boy. She used to put lipstick and rouge on you, do you remember that?"
• "He looked on Jim as a “Mammie’s boy”, not realizing that it was as much his fault, as he did not take Jim anywhere."
• "True, Sam had clung to her apron strings for a long time, ‘Mammie’s boy’, Daniel had said, concerned the boy would be a sissy, as he put it."