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brownie
| brownie mix
| browning
| browning automatic rifle
| browning machine gun
| brownish
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brownie
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun brownie has 3 senses
- brownie(n = noun.person) Array - a junior Girl Scout; Array is a kind of girl scout
- brownie(n = noun.person) elf, gremlin, hob, imp, pixie, pixy - (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous; Array is a kind of faerie, faery, fairy, fay, sprite
- brownie(n = noun.food) Array - square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts; Array is a kind of biscuit, cookie, cooky
has particulars: leprechaun, sandman
CIDE DICTIONARY
brownie, n. [So called from its supposed tawny or swarthy color.].
An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
brownie, n.
1 (in full Brownie Guide) a member of the junior branch of the Guides.
2 (brownie) Cookery a a small square of rich, usu. chocolate, cake with nuts. b Austral. & NZ a sweet currant-bread.
3 (brownie) a benevolent elf said to haunt houses and do household work secretly.
1 (in full Brownie Guide) a member of the junior branch of the Guides.
2 (brownie) Cookery a a small square of rich, usu. chocolate, cake with nuts. b Austral. & NZ a sweet currant-bread.
3 (brownie) a benevolent elf said to haunt houses and do household work secretly.
Idiom
Brownie point colloq. a notional credit for something done to please or win favour.
THESAURUS
brownie
Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Finnbeara, Lilliputian, Mab, Oberon, Titania, Tom Thumb, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, banshee, biscuit, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, clawback, cluricaune, cookie, courtier, creature, cringer, date bar, dupe, dwarf, elf, fairy, fairy queen, fawner, fay, flatterer, flunky, footlicker, fruit bar, ginger snap, gingerbread man, gnome, goblin, gremlin, groveler, handshaker, helot, hob, homunculus, imp, instrument, jackal, kobold, kowtower, lackey, ladyfinger, led captain, leprechaun, lickspit, lickspittle, macaroon, manikin, mealymouth, midge, midget, minion, ouphe, peewee, peon, peri, pip-squeak, pixie, pooka, puca, puppet, pwca, pygmy, runt, serf, shortbread, shrimp, slave, spaniel, sprite, stooge, suck, sugar cookie, sycophant, sylph, sylphid, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, wart, yes-manROGET THESAURUS
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Demon
N demon, daemon, demonry, demonology, evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil, bad spirit, unclean spirit, cacodemon, incubus, Eblis, shaitan, succubus, succuba, Frankenstein's monster, Titan, Shedim, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Moloch, Belial, Ahriman, fury, harpy, Friar Rush, vampire, ghoul, afreet, barghest, Loki, ogre, ogress, gnome, gin, jinn, imp, deev, lamia, bogie, bogeyman, bogle, nis, kobold, flibbertigibbet, fairy, brownie, pixy, elf, dwarf, urchin, Puck, Robin Goodfellow, leprechaun, Cluricaune, troll, dwerger, sprite, ouphe, bad fairy, nix, nixie, pigwidgeon, will-o'-the wisp, ghost, revenant, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision, hobglobin, goblin, orc, wraith, spook, boggart, banshee, loup-garou, lemures, evil eye, merman, mermaid, merfolk, siren, satyr, faun, manito, manitou, manitu, possession, demonic possession, diabolic possession, insanity, Maxwell's demon, demoniac, demonic, demonical, impish, demoniacal, fiendish, fiend-like, supernatural, weird, uncanny, unearthly, spectral, ghostly, ghost-like, elfin, elvin, elfish, elflike, haunted, pokerish, possessed, possessed by a devil, possessed by a demon, demonically.
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