superkid

noun

superkid

noun

Etymology From super- + kid.

1

Colloquial A child of remarkable talents or abilities.

  • WHEN Kali Grosvenor was nine years old, back in 1970, she achieved a level of celebrity as a superkid. Her first book, Poems by Kali, had been published by a major firm (Doubleday) and was selling at the rate of 1,000 copies a week […]1974, Ebony, volume 29, number 10, page 96:
  • Elkind appealed to parents prone to live for and through their child's accomplishments to give up their vain desire for a superkid, refrain from exaggerating the child's competence, and stop rushing and pushing the child into adulthood.2004, Laura E. Berk, Awakening Children's Minds:

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