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Discover LudwigThe word 'whiz-kid' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it informally to describe someone who is very skilled, generally in a technical field, and usually younger than average. For example: "My cousin is a real whiz-kid when it comes to writing computer code."
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whiz-kid
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Alternative spelling of whiz kid
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Hummus, coffee, whiz-kid undergraduates.
Young dancers today too often look like whiz-kid automatons.
His first imported whiz-kid told him UC was deliverable.
They compare tans while a clipboard-carrying whiz-kid, Jack Jenkins, outlines the morning's battle plan.
She was a self-possessed literary whiz-kid in Woody Allen's masterpiece Husbands and Wives.
Shouldn't he be writing songs about the trials and tribulations of a corporate whiz-kid?
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Khanna is something of a foreign policy whiz kid.
"She was a stylist, idea whiz kid, downtown gal," Johnson told me.
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