Meaning

10 senses
  1. (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

  2. (Australia, New Zealand, uncountable)A sweet bread with brown sugar and currants.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.

    Heinzelmännchen

    домово́йdomovój, бра́униbráuni

  4. (countable, uncountable)A copper coin, brown in colour; a penny, halfpenny, or cent.

  5. (countable, uncountable)A household spirit or revered ancestor.

  6. (countable, uncountable)Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Eurasian genus Miletus.

  7. (countable, informal, uncountable)A brown trout (Salmo trutta).

  8. (countable, informal, uncountable)A widow rockfish (Sebastes entomelas), a fish in the family Sebastidae.

  9. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, countable, uncountable)A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.

  10. (countable, ethnic, offensive, slur, uncountable)A person with brown skin.

Examples

58 sentences
  1. I baked some brownies for Tom.

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  2. Tom baked some brownies for Mary.

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  3. Tom made enough brownies for everyone.

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  4. Tom made enough brownies for everybody.

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  5. Are there nuts in these brownies?

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
small rich cake:
helpful elf:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
small rich cake:
helpful elf:

Origin

From brown + -ie (diminutive suffix). In folkloric sense, originally Scots. For sense 7, c

From 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: brownies
Singularbrownie
Pluralbrownies

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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