and All the Many-Splendored Things in Between in Teenspeak - Jockspeak - Menglish - Slanglish - Spanglish
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Pompo-Verbosity & other Figurative Lingos
Excessive devotion to one's mother or to motherhood; said to stem from a mother's domination over her children and their failure to mature psychologically.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by American writer Philip Wylie (1902-1971) in 1942 from a contraction of mom + ism.