Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A member of the Girl Scouts from six through eight years of age.
- n. A bar of moist, usually chocolate cake, often with nuts.
- n. A small sprite thought to do helpful work at night.
- n. A brown trout.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Scotland, a spirit supposed to haunt houses, particularly farm-houses. The brownie was believed to be very useful to the family, particularly if treated well by them, and to the servants, for whom while they slept he was wont to do many pieces of drudgery. In appearance the brownie was said to be meager, shaggy, and wild.
Wiktionary
- n. A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
- n. folklore A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would do people′s housework for them.
- n. paganism A household spirit or revered ancestor.
- n. Australia, New Zealand (colloquial) A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Scot. An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- n. square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts
- n. a junior Girl Scout
Etymologies
- From brown + -ie (“diminutive suffix”). (Wiktionary)
- Sense 3, from the notion of the sprite as a tiny brown man. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But as far as gratification, the brownie is always there.”
“Stay tuned for next week where I will be participating (2 consecutive weeks, woo hoo!) in brownie buttons.”
“Place in brownie pan or large pan and smash it all down (best technique is to put Saran Wrap over one pan and use another pan to squash it down).”
“If this brownie is not a winner, I will not touch Dulce de Leche ever again!”
“I think the minority that still thinks they win brownie points by acting snide are dinosaurs crowded in the last warm valley, and are waking up to how out of touch with reality they are.”
“Yes, he might be doing this to gain brownie points, increase his audience size, and even, oh my god, I must say it, to someday increase his profit line.”
My Response to "Been there, done that..." (Blog for Democracy)
“Because a 100-pound brownie is far more fun that way.”
“I love to bake but I only ever want one, maybe two, cookies out of a batch or one half of a regular serving size of brownie from the pan.”
“On the last night of their trip, Chuck convinced Kristin that they had to return to the park to get a brownie from a street vendor.”
“Switzerland wants to win brownie points with the USA because of the tax haven bank scandal … read the European papers, they all talk about it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brownie’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EN - xenophobic terms
Alle Menschen werden Brüder - sooner or later? Derogatory terms for anybody different.
abe, anchor baby, ann, ape, apple, asian nigger, aunt jemima , aunt jane, aunt mary, aunt sally, banana, beaner and 315 more...
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supernatural creatures according to M...
Turned this up on etymonline.com (link). It's amazing.
Hobbit (n.)
1937, coined in the fantasy tales of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973).
On a blank leaf I scrawled: 'In a hole...ghost, boggle, bloody-bones, spirit, demon, ignis fatuus, brownie, bugbear, black dog, specter, shellycoat, scarecrow and 186 more...
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Mythical Beings
mermaid, manticore, fairy, brownie, dwarf, elf, leprechaun, selkie, gremlin, puck, pixie, genie and 97 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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brown phrases/words
how brown is used
do brown, to, brown willow, brown ware, brown tubes, brown top, brown-thrasher, brown-tail, brown stout, brown-stone, brown-stemmed, brown-spar, brown snake and 119 more...
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Brow now
frontlet, Veronica, tres-tyne, rusine, beetle brow, Elphin, vibrissa, corrugator, brownie, nutbrown, brownian, browsing and 7 more...
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The sweetest thing.
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down!
sugary, sweetness, fragrant, cloying, saccharine, honey, luscious, nectar, pudding, pastry, bittersweet, cupcake and 44 more...
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C is for Cookie
chocolate chip, sugar, butter, oatmeal, peanut butter, pinwheel, snickerdoodle, shortbread, butterscotch, refrigerator, icebox, Girl Scout and 42 more...
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Trout
trout, golden trout, rainbow trout, Trout Fishing in ..., Kilgore Trout, Trout Quintet, Trout Mask Replica, steelhead, cutthroat trout, lake trout, trout cod, Mackinaw trout and 61 more...
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Things from my memory
nigger baby, mexican jumping bean, puddle jumper, mood ring, pet rock, cat scratch fever, taxman, hippie, vaseline, argyrol, mercurchrome, methiolade and 655 more...
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Forgotten English 1
jacal, mastaba, lucarne, quoin, triglyph, gargarice, nimgimmer, phrenologize, fleam, eaglestone, toad eater, king's evil and 156 more...
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The Devil and His Imps
Names of 'the Devil himself, the devils his "flaming ministers", household goblins, rural demons, bogles, sprites, and fairies of all kinds' mentioned in Charles P.G. Scott's 'The Devil and His Imp...
devil, devilet, deviling, dablet, black angel, black man, black bear, black bull, black dog, bogle, bogie, boggard and 128 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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Fictional beasties
elf, gnome, dwarf, sprite, troll, fairy, nymph, imp, brownie, sasquatch, yeti, wookiee and 574 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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