Meaning

3 senses
  1. (informal)A brook trout.

  2. A dessert with one layer being a cookie and the other being a brownie.

  3. (South Africa)Short pants; shorts.

Origin

From brook + -ie (diminutive suffix). Blend of brownie + cookie. From Afrikaans broekie,

From brook + -ie (diminutive suffix).

Blend of brownie + cookie.

From Afrikaans broekie, diminutive of broek (“pants”), from Dutch broek (“pants”). Cognate with Dutch broekje (“shorts”). Doublet of breeches and britches.

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Forms

plural: brookies
Singularbrookie
Pluralbrookies

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
brookie — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto