brownies
Meaning
plural of brownie
brownie
- (countable, usually) A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
- (Australia, New-Zealand, uncountable) A sweet bread with brown sugar and currants.
- (countable, uncountable) A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.
- (countable, uncountable) A copper coin, brown in colour; a penny, halfpenny, or cent.
- (countable, uncountable) A household spirit or revered ancestor.
- (countable, uncountable) Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Eurasian genus Miletus.
- (countable, informal, uncountable) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
- (countable, informal, uncountable) A widow rockfish (Sebastes entomelas), a fish in the family Sebastidae.
- (alt-of, countable, uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Brownie (“a girl in the first level of Girl Guides (US: Girl Scouts)”).
- (Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial, countable, uncountable) A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
- (countable, ethnic, offensive, slur, uncountable) A person with brown skin.
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