brownie
nounEtymology
From brownie (“a helpful elf”). Specifically, inspired by the story "The Brownies" by Juliana Horatia Ewing (published in 1870, The Brownies and Other Tales), in which two children, Tommy and Betty, learn that children can be helpful brownies or lazy boggarts. But compare with Dutch kabouter (“a very young female member of the scout movement”) (literally, a "gnome").
Definitions
A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
- Order for the brownie was placed but it took half an hour to prepare it.
- […]if she ever found out she was dying, she'd just eat brownies all day and night until the very end.
- Rona served Althea coffee with yellow milk curdling in the center, and a hunk of brownie, and Althea said, “Thanks so much.”
A sweet bread with brown sugar and currants.
- It was an amusing sight to see the three of us, each with a huge hunch of “browny” (bread sweetened with brown sugar and currants) in one hand, and a lump of ice in the other, for there was no water within reach.
- They rode quietly along to the stockman’s hut, gave their message, rested their horses for half-an-hour, and had some tea without milk, and a piece of cake made of flour, fat, and sugar, commonly known as [“]browny.”
- Four o’clock, “Smoke O!” again, and more tea and “brownie” (a bread sweetened with sugar and currants).
A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.
- "Oh, auntie, do you know what Stine says?" cried a little brown-eyed beauty; "she says I shall go with her into the hayloft to-night and give the brownie his Christmas porridge."
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A copper coin, brown in colour
A copper coin, brown in colour; a penny, halfpenny, or cent.
- He rose and jingled in his pockets for change and drew out two brownies. He went and set one on each of Monroe’s eyes[.]
A household spirit or revered ancestor.
Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Eurasian genus Miletus.
A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
A widow rockfish (Sebastes entomelas), a fish in the family Sebastidae.
- Depending upon the species, fishers may harvest along the ocean floor for many rockfish and other groundfish, while hake, pollock, and some rockfish species (i.e. greenies and brownies) are targeted with mid-water trawls.
Alternative letter-case form of Brownie (“a girl in the first level of Girl Guides (US
Alternative letter-case form of Brownie (“a girl in the first level of Girl Guides (US: Girl Scouts)”).
A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
A person with brown skin.
A junior Girl Guide.
- 1958 July 14, Boot by a Brash Brownie, LIFE, page 124, In Toronto young Brownies of the Girl Guides, the Canadian girl scouts, stood in parade formation with full-fledged Guides.
- The ideal Brownie pack, according to the 1960 Guide Commissioner′s Handbook, would contain Brownies who were ‘alert, clean, tidy and punctual. Their uniform should be correct.’
A junior Girl Scout.
- Most marchers were children, Girl and Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and Brownies. One Cub Scout pulled his sister in a Radio Flyer decorated with small American flags. A Brownie pushed a baby carriage crammed with a zoo of stuffed animals.
- After all, the meetings were held at my own house and my own mother was the queen. Doesn′t that make me some sort of Brownie princess? Apparently not. As we graduated from Brownies to Girl Scouts, Mom was again my leader.
A nickname of the surname Brown.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for brownie. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA