Brownie
['braʊnɪ] or ['braʊni]
Definition
(noun.) square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts.
(noun.) a junior Girl Scout.
Checker: Selma--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
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Definition
n. a kind of domestic spirit in the folklore of Scotland represented as a good-humoured drudging goblin who attached himself to farmhouses and occupied himself overnight in churning thrashing corn and the like.
Editor: Nita
Examples
- Amongst the kind brownie's gifts left in my desk, I forgot to enumerate many a paper of chocolate comfits. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I find you rather alarming, when I examine you close at hand: you talk of my being a fairy, but I am sure, you are more like a brownie. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Checked by Carlton