Brownie

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Brownie \Brown"ie\, 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. [Scot.]
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  brownie
       n 1: (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous [syn: {elf},
             {hob}, {gremlin}, {pixie}, {pixy}, {imp}]
       2: square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "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-man