"Mammy's boy" meaning in English

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          "text": "Not much sins you’d have with that Mammy’s boy from the tennis club.",
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          "text": "When would Hamish come to her bed and make them truly husband and wife? Surely he wasn’t such a Mammy’s boy that he’d take weeks to get over her death?",
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          "text": "“That woman breastfed Packie as a baby,” she’d told Laura one day, in shocked tones. “It’s small wonder he turned out to be such a Mammy’s boy.[…]”",
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