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View synonyms for boy wonder

boy wonder

noun

  1. a young man whose skills or accomplishments are precocious.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of boy wonder1

1960–65; perhaps fashioned on German Wunderkind

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Example Sentences

From Jordan to New Jersey, Palestinians watch and vote religiously for their hometown boy wonder.

Paul Ryan, introduced to the country last year as something of a boy wonder, is going through a rough patch.

Little Everard, the Boy Wonder, has put a dainty foot in it again!

How's the boy wonder, the only man-eating Dink in captivity?

Indeed, after being advertised and announced as a boy wonder, he felt that he could not do otherwise.

Burris had called him a Boy Wonder then, when he'd cracked three difficult cases in a row.

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