brownie

[ brou-nee ]

/ ˈbraʊ ni /

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noun

a tiny, fanciful, good-natured brown elf who secretly helps at night with household chores.

a small, chewy, cakelike cookie, usually made with chocolate and containing nuts.

Australian. a bread with currants, baked in a camp oven.

(sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the junior division of the Girl Scouts or the Girl Guides, being a girl in the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade and usually between 6 and 8 years old.

Origin of brownie

1505–15; brown + -ie; in folkloric sense, orig. Scots

SYNONYMS FOR brownie

1 See fairy.

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Words nearby brownie

browned off, browned-off, brownfield, brownian motion, brownian movement, brownie, brownie guide, brownie guider, brownie point, brownie points, browning

Definition for brownie (2 of 2)

Brown

[ broun ]

/ braʊn /

noun

Charles Brock·den

[brok-duh n] /ˈbrɒk dən/,1771–1810, U.S. novelist.

CliffordBrownie,1930–56, U.S. jazz trumpeter.

Edmund Gerald, Jr.Jerry,born 1938, U.S. politician: governor of California 1975–83.

Herbert Charles,1912–2004, U.S. chemist, born in England: Nobel Prize 1979.

James NathanielJimmy,born 1936, U.S. football player and actor.

JohnOld Brown of Osawatomie,1800–59, U.S. abolitionist: leader of the attack at Harpers Ferry, where he was captured, tried for treason, and hanged.

Margaret Wise,1910–52, U.S. author noted for early-childhood books.

Olympia,1835–1926, U.S. women's-rights activist and Universalist minister: first American woman ordained by a major church.

Robert,1773–1858, Scottish botanist.

Example sentences from the Web for brownie

She and her staff later celebrated with brownie bites and cake from Costco (not paid for at taxpayer expense, an aide points out).

Nancy Pelosi’s Tireless Obamacare Push Vindicated by Supreme Court Ruling |Eleanor Clift |July 4, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Obama stepped in it by echoing W.'s praise for Brownie, saying Larry Summers had done "a heck of a job."

Obama's Last Laugh |Howard Kurtz |October 28, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
In what might just become their “Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job!”

May 30: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk |The Daily Beast Video |May 30, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
Same for the policeman's undercover horse, code named "Brownie," as I think Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell let slip.

All Those Times Square Heroes |Leslie H. Gelb |May 8, 2010 |DAILY BEAST

Every e-mail, letter, brownie, and sandwich sent from William Poll has been deeply appreciated.

Farewell to My Father |Griffin Dunne |September 11, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
Entering in, I saw that 'Brownie' had got up and the window was closed.

Border Ghost Stories |Howard Pease
An hour and a half later Brownie, Henny, and the doctor were on the Castle porch.

The Chickens of Fowl Farm |Lena E. Barksdale
For the present they were homeless, and Brownie saw that the only thing was to take them into the fields.

Lives of the Fur Folk |M. D. Haviland
It was the Brownie of Bodsbeck, sometimes mentioned before, small of stature, and its whole form utterly mis–shaped.

The Brownie of Bodsbeck, and Other Tales (Vol. 1 of 2) |James Hogg
And all the payment the brownie ever asked for was a bowl of broth.

The Lilac Fairy Book |Andrew Lang

British Dictionary definitions for brownie (1 of 4)

brownie

/ (ˈbraʊnɪ) /

noun

(in folklore) an elf said to do helpful work at night, esp household chores

a small square nutty chocolate cake

Australian history a bread made with currants

Word Origin for brownie

C16: diminutive of brown (that is, a small brown man)

British Dictionary definitions for brownie (2 of 4)

Brownie

/ (ˈbraʊnɪ) /

noun

another name for Brownie Guide

trademark (formerly) a popular make of simple box camera

British Dictionary definitions for brownie (3 of 4)

brown

/ (braʊn) /

noun

any of various colours, such as those of wood or earth, produced by low intensity light in the wavelength range 620–585 nanometres

a dye or pigment producing these colours

brown cloth or clothing dressed in brown

any of numerous mostly reddish-brown butterflies of the genera Maniola, Lasiommata, etc, such as M. jurtina (meadow brown): family Satyridae

adjective

of the colour brown

(of bread) made from a flour that has not been bleached or bolted, such as wheatmeal or wholemeal flour

deeply tanned or sunburnt

verb

to make (esp food as a result of cooking) brown or (esp of food) to become brown

Derived forms of brown

brownish or browny, adjective brownness, noun

Word Origin for brown

Old English brūn; related to Old Norse brūnn, Old High German brūn, Greek phrunos toad, Sanskrit babhru reddish-brown

British Dictionary definitions for brownie (4 of 4)

Brown

/ (braʊn) /

noun

Sir Arthur Whitten (ˈwɪt ə n). 1886–1948, British aviator who with J.W. Alcock made the first flight across the Atlantic (1919)

Ford Madox . 1821–93, British painter, associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings include The Last of England (1865) and Work (1865)

George (Alfred), Lord George-Brown. 1914–85, British Labour politician; vice-chairman and deputy leader of the Labour party (1960–70); foreign secretary 1966–68

George Mackay . 1921–96, Scottish poet, novelist, and short-story writer. His works, which include the novels Greenvoe (1972) and Magnus (1973), reflect the history and culture of Orkney

(James) Gordon . born 1951, British Labour politician; Chancellor of the Exchequer (1997–2007); prime minister (2007–10)

Herbert Charles . 1912–2004, US chemist, who worked on the compounds of boron. Nobel prize for chemistry 1979

James . 1933–2006, US soul singer and songwriter, noted for his dynamic stage performances and for his commitment to Black rights

John . 1800–59, US abolitionist leader, hanged after leading an unsuccessful rebellion of slaves at Harper's Ferry, Virginia

Lancelot, called Capability Brown . 1716–83, British landscape gardener

Michael (Stuart). born 1941, US physician: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1985) for work on cholesterol

Robert . 1773–1858, Scottish botanist who was the first to observe the Brownian movement in fluids

Medical definitions for brownie

Brown

[ broun ]

Michael Born 1941

American geneticist. He shared a 1985 Nobel Prize for discoveries related to cholesterol metabolism.

Idioms and Phrases with brownie

brown

In addition to the idioms beginning with brown

brown bagger
browned off
brownie points
brown nose
brown study, in a

also see:

do up (brown)

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