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chouïa

/ʃu.ja/

adverb/ʃu.ja/

little, bit

Moi, déclara Zazie, je veux aller à l'école jusqu'à soixante-cinq ans. − Jusqu'à soixante-cinq ans? répéta Gabriel un chouïa surpris."I want to go to school until I'm sixty-five," announced Zazie. "Until you're sixty-five?" repeated Gabriel, a tad surprised.

Borrowed from a Maghrebi Arabic form such as Algerian Arabic شوية (šwiyya) and Moroccan Arabic شوية (šwiyya), ultimately from a diminutive of Arabic شَيْء (šayʔ, “thing”).