brownie
Meaning
- A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
- A sweet bread with brown sugar and currants.
- A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.
- A household spirit or revered ancestor.
- A copper coin, brown in colour; a penny, halfpenny, or cent.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Eurasian genus Miletus.
- (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
- (informal) A widow rockfish (Sebastes entomelas), a fish in the family Sebastidae.
- Alternative letter-case form of Brownie (“a girl in the first level of Girl Guides (US: Girl Scouts)”).
- (colloquial) A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
- A person with brown skin.
Synonyms
house-spirit
gremlin
Korean mackerel
broad-barred king mackerel
broad-barred mackerel
broadbanded mackerel
broadbarred king mackerel
broadbarred mackerel
broadbarred spanish mackerel
bronzeback
brown bass
gold bass
green bass
grey mackerel
grey spanish mackerel
northern smallmouth bass
trout bass
Portable radar apparatus
Frequency
Hyphenated as
brown‧ie
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbɹaʊni/
Etymology
From brown + -ie (diminutive suffix). In folkloric sense, originally Scots.
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