bijou problemette
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]bijou (“small, little”) + problem + -ette
Noun
[edit]bijou problemette (plural bijou problemettes or bijoux problemettes)
- (UK, originally Polari, informal, humorous) A little fault or problem.
- 2013 October 2nd, “ppint. at pplay” (username), “Re: the balfour declaration” in alt.fan.pratchett, Usenet:
- 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…
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bijou problemette.