Word.ws English Dictionary

quiz kid

quiz kid noun: a very intelligent or accomplished child or young person, especially one who demonstrated his or her knowledge and quick thinking on radio or television programs in the mid-20th century.

Noun (1)

quiz kid (plural quiz kids)

  1. A very intelligent or accomplished child or young person, especially one who demonstrated his or her knowledge and quick thinking on radio or television programs in the mid-20th century.
    • Brown recalled:
      I went up to read for her, and this forbidding lady said, "You think you're smart, you Quiz Kid you! What did Shakespeare mean by the phrase, bearded like the pard?" And I said, "Leopard, bearded like the leopard". It was a guess, a wild guess. And she said, "By golly, yes! You are...1999 May 29, Tom Vallance, “Obituary: Vanessa Brown”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 09 Jul 2014
    • Through the next two debates, Kerry never lost that quiz-kid sharpness. He seemed to have an answer for everything.2004 October 15, David Ignatius, “Real, Enlightening TV”, in Washington Post, retrieved 09 Jul 2014

Noun (2) capitalized: Quiz Kid

Quiz Kid (plural Quiz Kids)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of quiz kid.

Forms of quiz kid

pluralquiz kids
alternative formQuiz Kid
pluralQuiz Kids

Questions about quiz kid

What does quiz kid mean?
Quiz kid means a very intelligent or accomplished child or young person, especially one who demonstrated his or her knowledge and quick thinking on radio or television programs in the mid-20th century.
What part of speech is quiz kid?
Quiz kid is a noun.
What is the plural of quiz kid?
The plural of quiz kid is quiz kids.

Words near quiz kid in the dictionary

  1. Quiyoughcohannock
  2. Quiyoughcohannocks
  3. quiz
  4. quiz bowl
  5. quiz bowls
  6. quiz kid
  7. quiz kids
  8. quiz show
  9. quiz shows
  10. quiz-kid
  11. quiz-kids

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quiz kid (page history and authors); Quiz Kid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “quiz kid.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/quiz_kid. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.