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phenom
\ FEE-nom, fi-NOM \
noun;
1.Slang. a phenomenon, especially a young prodigy: a twelve-year-old tennis phenom.
Quotes:
"...You're a phenomha. What is the word? Maybe I can't say it, Arnie. But it's what you are. Phenon. A phenom ?"
-- Peter Hedges, "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," 1991
The roommate was a late admit and supposedly some kind of baseball phenom .
-- Chad Harbach, "The Art of Fielding," 2011
Origin:
Phenom is simply a shortening of the word phenomenon . This colloquial term has been used in English since the late 1800s.
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