Wonderboy

Origin

wonder + boy

Full definition of wonderboy

Noun

1. (informal) A male child prodigy, or (loosely) a talented male of any age.
• 1986, Don Belton, Almost midnight‎Daddy 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...
• 1992, James B Stewart, Den of thieves...the wonderboys of Detroit and Wall Street...
• 2004, Joshua Cooper Ramo, No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous SportHe could have been a robot really. He could be taught to do anything, the coaches thought. He was a wonderboy.

Anagrams

• boy wonder