enfant terrible

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

An unconventional badly-behaved person who causes embarrassment or shock to others.
An unusually successful person who is strikingly unorthodox, innovative, or avant-garde.
A wild child.

En-us-enfant terrible.oga

enfant terrible enfants terribles

Unadapted borrowing from French enfant terrible (literally “terrible child”).

terrible infant

bad boy

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