mother's-boy

Updated: June 21, 2025

He presented some of the recruits to Palmer: pluming himself, adjusting the bogus chains over his pink shirt. "Hyur's Squire Pratt. Got two sons in th' army, goin' hisself. That's the talk! Charley Orr, show yerself! This boy's father was shot in his bed by the Bushwhackers." A mere boy, thin, consumptive, hollow-chested: a mother's-boy, Palmer saw, with fair hair and dreamy eyes.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862