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Mama-ko-Pucho
[mah-mah-koh-poo-choh]Pan-Diaspora· From Hindustani "Ask Mama", popular Anglo-Indian teasing term for a dependent mama’s boy
Also spelled: mamas boy, mummys boy
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A teasing term for an overprotected young man who cannot make a single decision without running to consult his mother first.
“He won’t even agree to go to the pictures on Saturday without getting permission—he is a proper mama-ko-pucho.”
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