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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French enfant terrible (“terrible child”).
Noun[edit]
enfant terrible (plural enfants terribles)
- 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.
Translations[edit]
unconventional badly-behaved person
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Catalan[edit]
Noun[edit]
enfant terrible m (plural enfants terribles)
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French enfant terrible (“terrible child”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
enfant terrible n (plural enfants terribles)
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Literally, “terrible child”, i.e. “badly-behaved child”.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
enfant terrible m (plural enfants terribles)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see enfant, terrible.
- enfant terrible, wild child
Descendants[edit]
- → Catalan: enfant terrible
- → Dutch: enfant terrible
- → English: enfant terrible
- → German: Enfant terrible
- → Russian: анфа́н-терри́бль (anfán-terríblʹ)
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