wonderboy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.09 in modern English

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noun

Informal

"Daddy had been using that child for a boy prophet, building up a whole new ministry around him, since the child was four years old, calling him a wonderboy..."
"...the wonderboys of Detroit and Wall Street..."
"He could have been a robot really. He could be taught to do anything, the coaches thought. He was a wonderboy."

From wonder + boy.

wonderboys (plural)

child prodigy

child prodigy

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