brookie

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A brook trout.

   • The brookie Bill dismissed as “another small one” was 16 inches long, thick and weighed about two pounds.
2. 2

   A dessert with one layer being a cookie and the other being a brownie.

   • We now have crookies, brookies, duffins, and cruffins, all mash-ups of familiar treats (cookies, tarts, brownies, doughnuts, croissants and muffins respectively).
   • They were not only combining doughnuts and muffins, but just about any other kind of food you could think of. There were piecakens (a pie baked inside a cake), brookies (brownie and cookie) and cherpumples (cherry, pumpkin and apple pie).
   • When you can’t decide between a cookie and a brownie, why not make both—in the same pan—for what we fondly refer to as the “brookie.”
3. 3

   Short pants

   Short pants; shorts.

   • And the few skirts which are past remaking are carefully cut down into small brookies for the young hopeful, who will get the last ounce of wear out of them.
   • […] you cannot do a poopy in your brookie, […]
   • I notice, too, that the child is wearing red brookies [shorts].
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   1. 4

      Brookside, a British television soap opera.

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