enfant terrible
Noun
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Noun
enfant terrible
- An unconventional badly-behaved person who causes embarrassment or shock to others.
- 2010, Peter Coleman, Quadrant, March 2010, No. 464 (Volume LIV, Number 3), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 86:
- He was soon the talk of the town, the enfant terrible of our little world.
- 2010, Peter Coleman, Quadrant, March 2010, No. 464 (Volume LIV, Number 3), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 86:
- An unusually successful person who is strikingly unorthodox, innovative, and/or avant-garde.
- French: enfant terrible
- German: Enfant terrible
- Russian: анфа́н-терри́бль
- Spanish: niño terrible
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