brownie
A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolateA small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
» I baked some brownies for Tom.
Meaning
10 senses(countable, usually)A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
Order for the brownie was placed but it took half an hour to prepare it.
Brownie
бра́униbráuni
square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts
(Australia, New Zealand, uncountable)A sweet bread with brown sugar and currants.
(countable, uncountable)A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.
Heinzelmännchen
домово́йdomovój, бра́униbráuni
(countable, uncountable)A copper coin, brown in colour; a penny, halfpenny, or cent.
(countable, uncountable)A household spirit or revered ancestor.
(countable, uncountable)Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Eurasian genus Miletus.
(countable, informal, uncountable)A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
(countable, informal, uncountable)A widow rockfish (Sebastes entomelas), a fish in the family Sebastidae.
(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, countable, uncountable)A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
(countable, ethnic, offensive, slur, uncountable)A person with brown skin.
Examples
58 sentencesI baked some brownies for Tom.
Tom baked some brownies for Mary.
Tom made enough brownies for everyone.
Tom made enough brownies for everybody.
Are there nuts in these brownies?
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 2
Origin
From brown + -ie (diminutive suffix). In folkloric sense, originally Scots. For sense 7, cFrom brown + -ie (diminutive suffix). In folkloric sense, originally Scots. For sense 7, compare with Dutch kabouter (“a very young female member of the scout movement”) (literally "gnome").
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Forms
plural: browniesSynonyms
7 synonymsWord family
7 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable