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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: ¹brown Date: circa 1500 1. a legendary good-natured elf that performs helpful services at night 2. capitalized a member of a program of the Girl Scouts for girls in the first through third grades in school 3. a small square or rectangle of rich usually chocolate cake often containing nuts

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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. Phrases and idioms: Brownie point colloq. a notional credit for something done to please or win favour.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(brownies) Note: The spelling 'Brownie' is also used for meaning 2. 1. Brownies are small flat biscuits or cakes. They are usually chocolate flavoured and have nuts in them. ...chocolate brownies. ...a tray of brownies. N-COUNT: oft n N 2. The Brownies is a junior version of the Girl Guides in Britain for girls between the ages of seven and ten, or of the Girl Scouts in the United States for girls between the ages of six and eight. N-PROPER-COLL: the N • A Brownie is a girl who is a member of the Brownies. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

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