bijou

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /biˈʒuː/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A jewel.
  2. A piece of jewelry; a trinket.
  3. A small intricate piece of metalwork.
    — […]a saucepan on the hob, and a brazen bijou over the fireplace designed for the suspension of a roasting-jack.
形容词 adj.
  1. Small; little. Polari
    — You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface.
  2. Small and elegant.
    — I soon found Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open.
  3. Intricate; finely made.

词形变化

bijous plural bijoux plural more bijou comparative most bijou superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
bijou problemette
相关词
bijoutry

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
French bijoubor.
English bijou
Borrowed from French bijou.
词源 2
Borrowed from Sabir bijou, ultimately from Occitan pichon (“small, little”), influenced by English bijou (“jewel”).
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