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wonderboy

noun

Etymology

From wonder + boy.

  1. derived from *bʰā-✻
  2. derived from *bō-✻ — “brother, close male relation”
  3. inherited from *bōjô✻ — “younger brother, young male relation”
  4. inherited from *bōjō✻
  5. inherited from *bōia✻ — “boy”
  6. inherited from boy//boye — “servant, commoner, knave, boy”
  7. compounded as wonderboy — “wonder + boy”

Definitions

  1. A male child prodigy, or (loosely) a talented male of any age.

    • 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.

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