brownie

Meaning

  1. A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
  2. A sweet bread with brown sugar and currants.
  3. A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.
  4. A household spirit or revered ancestor.
  5. A copper coin, brown in colour; a penny, halfpenny, or cent.
  6. Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Eurasian genus Miletus.
  7. (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
  8. (informal) A widow rockfish (Sebastes entomelas), a fish in the family Sebastidae.
  9. Alternative letter-case form of Brownie (“a girl in the first level of Girl Guides (US: Girl Scouts)”).
  10. (colloquial) A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
  11. 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

C2
Hyphenated as
brown‧ie
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbɹaʊni/
Etymology

From brown + -ie (diminutive suffix). In folkloric sense, originally Scots.

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