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  • noun A child prodigy.

Etymologies

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wonder +‎ child

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Examples

  • Very happy birthday to the wonderbaby turned wonderchild.

    Now We Are Four | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • Hofmann, for his own part, often referred to LSD as his own "problem child" and in his letter he asks Jobs to "help in the transformation of my problem child into a wonderchild."

    Ryan Grim: Read the Never-Before-Published Letter From LSD-Inventor Albert Hofmann to Apple CEO Steve Jobs 2009

  • In his own words: "I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild."

    Albert Hoffman takes one last bicycle ride. Jeff 2008

  • He easily makes one forget the long-standing elevation of Dakota Fanning as the wonderchild acting prodigy of the century.

    THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES | Obsessed With Film 2008

  • Kinda makes you wish you reproduced and created your own wonderchild.

    Drummer Boy Rogers 2006

  • Make fun of your child and your marriage in such a way that they stop talking about their own wonderchild as they stare at you in amazement; not only will this shut them up, hopefully, they will see what an idiot they sound like.

    How To Be Funny JON MACKS 2003

  • Make fun of your child and your marriage in such a way that they stop talking about their own wonderchild as they stare at you in amazement; not only will this shut them up, hopefully, they will see what an idiot they sound like.

    How To Be Funny JON MACKS 2003

  • Make fun of your child and your marriage in such a way that they stop talking about their own wonderchild as they stare at you in amazement; not only will this shut them up, hopefully, they will see what an idiot they sound like.

    How To Be Funny JON MACKS 2003

  • Make fun of your child and your marriage in such a way that they stop talking about their own wonderchild as they stare at you in amazement; not only will this shut them up, hopefully, they will see what an idiot they sound like.

    How To Be Funny JON MACKS 2003

  • Make fun of your child and your marriage in such a way that they stop talking about their own wonderchild as they stare at you in amazement; not only will this shut them up, hopefully, they will see what an idiot they sound like.

    How To Be Funny JON MACKS 2003

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