Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bijou problemette

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bi-jou prob-lemette
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A little fault or problem.

British usage; Humorous; Informal

Example Sentences

"A bijou problemette then arose. The conference finished too late for me to catch the northbound Eurostar Connection Waterloo-Edinburgh train."
"There is also the "bijou problemette" (as my old chemistry teacher would say) that members of this consortium can't legitimately enter the quiz, since they wrote some of the questions."
"I have a 'bijou problemette' with my PC. It only works after a period of being switched off."
"So Italy had a couple of bijoux problemettes; Mussolini had more, once he’d been dismissed as leader of the Fascist Party, and from leading the government of the country, he was arrested and gaoled by the Italians…"

Etymology

bijou (“small, little”) + problem + -ette

Usage

Inflected Forms

bijou problemettes (plural) bijoux problemettes (plural)

Questions

What does bijou problemette mean?: A little fault or problem.
Where does bijou problemette come from?: bijou (“small, little”) + problem + -ette

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