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Definition of brownie in English:

brownie

nounPlural Brownies, Plural brownies ˈbraʊniˈbraʊni
  • 1A small square of rich chocolate cake, typically containing nuts.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Kathy came up a minute later to check on them and set a plate of chocolate chip brownies on the side table by her bed where they sat.
    • I bend down to inspect the chocolate chip brownies and to try to figure out how many I can have without spoiling my appetite for dinner.
    • The next day, I raised the bar and went for a fudge brownie with chocolate chips.
    • And the restaurant sells its own line of chocolate candies, brownies, and sumptuous dessert toppings from a retail counter up front.
    • As well as making mouthwatering delights such as chocolate brownies, cherry cakes, tea bread and fruit cakes, he can also turn his hand to preserves, pates and pork and Cumberland sausages.
    • When he went on a trip to Europe, he brought me back some brownies and some Lindt chocolate - to me that is still the best chocolate in the world.
    • This glaze also will work on a pan of brownies, a pound cake, even a fruit tart.
    • About two years ago, Mona decided to set up a home-based chocolate business and expanded her product line by adding cookies, brownies and marble cakes.
    • I once partnered an Australian sparkling ale with chocolate brownies for a laugh and the result was delicious.
    • Try adding nuts or other dried fruits- or make plain chocolate brownies without any extras at all.
    • The brownies are rich and full of chocolate flavor.
    • As for me, I don't think I could survive without my brownies and chocolate chips.
    • When your body is too hungry and screams for quick energy, you can easily succumb to chocolate chip cookies, brownies or candy bars.
    • And then we would manage to ferret away all the chocolate brownies and ice cream we could get and gobbled them up until our stomachs were swollen, as though we were five months pregnant.
    • If you're making your own pound cake, brownies or angel food cake for the chocolate fondue, get baking.
    • But she forgot them all during a disastrous year in high school when she lived in suburban Boston as an exchange student and gained 20 pounds on a diet of brownies and chocolate chip cookies.
    • But if I told you that you had a choice out of the crumble, home made chocolate brownies, a tiramisu dripping with brandy, and a rich crème brûlée, you might find that you didn't want the crumble after all.
    • These offered the most delicious apple strudel, chocolate brownies and buns!
    • It could make cakes, cookies, brownies, pizzas, candy and pies.
    • Like brownies, chocolate cake is loved by everyone.
    1. 1.1Australian, NZ A piece of sweet currant bread.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Despite Claude's cheery attitude and generosity with her homemade brownies, they all conspire to get rid of her.
      • When cold, remove brownie from tin and paper and cut into fingers or squares.
      • Mum asked me to cook some brownies and add extra walnuts.
      • It's an ideal arrangement and the dinner was also delicious - homemade Thai green curry and rice followed by freshly baked brownies and sugar strawberries.
      • I got home before him and I was sitting in the kitchen, eating peanut brownies, when William staggered in with the baby.
  • 2A member of the junior branch of the Guide Association, for girls aged between about 7 and 10, wearing a brown uniform.

    for my birthday I want to join the Brownies
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It seems I have broken some cultural taboo by being white and a non-Christian and, ironically enough, it did always strike me as strange that our multi-cultural neighbourhood had not one brown face in the Brownies at the local church.
    • A BRAVE Brownie who survived two strokes is looking forward to celebrating Christmas at home with her family.
    • As of now the Schools, Girl Guides, and The Brownies have shown an interest to use, and continue using the facility.
    • I've been selling Girl Scout cookies since first grade, when I was a Brownie.
    • Sophie, who has been a Brownie herself, takes over the presidency following the death of Princess Margaret in February last year.
    • The Rainbows is a group for girls aged between five and seven, before they join the Brownies.
    • I joined when I was ten after the Brownies and then I really wanted this award called the Baden-Powell award.
    • To help them complete their badges the Brownies contacted the police who asked them to design crime prevention posters.
    • Happy camping to all the Brownies and their leaders who are going on their annual weekend camp to Ballina on Friday, May 27.
    • Still, rebellion had a dress code and I followed it as sedulously as I had the one for the Brownies and Catholic School.
    • An enthusiast since joining the Brownies aged seven, she believes the movement has a huge amount to offer.
    • Maybe it's like being a Girl Scout or a Brownie and some how or other, you fly up and make it into Manipura just in the nick of time and you're headed home free before you know it.
    • All little girls aged seven years old and over are welcome to join the Brownies.
    • ‘Some girls come who just love the Brownies but don't want to do badges,’ Mandy said.
    • Men, youth and children have also taken part in the effort, including Girl Scouts, Brownies, Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts.
    • Best Float was won by the Brownies in Flintstone outfits and Bedrock cars and Nursery Rhymes won best walking in their Thomas the Tank Engine locomotives.
    • After serving as a Brownie and then a Guide with the Eastbrook Hall group in Bradford, she moved to St Stephen's at West Bowling where she became a Guide Lieutenant.
    • A letter was received from Lesley Wade asking if the Brownies could paint a mural inside the bus shelter on boards.
    • Nearly everyone takes part, including the Brownies and the Highland dancers.
    • He added that the gala committee had been greatly assisted by the Old White Bear public house, which stepped in at the eleventh hour to provide refreshments, and the Brownies who cleared the tables.
    • Now I'm not a qualified doctor (I got my First Aid badge in the Brownies - does that count?) but if I were to hazard a diagnosis, I'd say that this is not a syndrome, it's just life.
    • Keen to join the Brownies, she was told she would have to attend church.
    • Mrs Griffiths said: ‘In the Brownies, as well as doing their badges, the girls learn do research for themselves.’
    • She went to Dauntsey's Primary School in West Lavington and was a Brownie with the local group in West Lavington.
    • The cash will be used to renovate the Scout building, also used by Cubs, Brownies, Guides and Venture Scouts.
    • I only just avoided being drummed out of the Brownies.
    • Almost 300,000 Brownies in Britain, aged between seven and ten, will wear the new uniform.
    • Then one of the Brownies asked me, ‘Did you remember to replace the earth you dug from the hole when you rose the following morning?’
    • Participation in Cub Scouts, Brownies, or other scouts accounted for 5.6% of the children.
    • When I was in elementary school in Colorado, I was a Brownie and then a Girl Scout until the age of 12 when we moved to Kansas.
    • Members of the Girl Guides and the Brownies provided the entertainment for the evening.
    • She was a Brownie, Guide and Ranger as well as belonging to the Girls' Friendly Society.
    • Girls wishing to join Brownies should attend on Thursday 22nd.
    • The former St Edmund's pupil has been involved with the Guide movement since she joined the Brownies at the age of seven.
  • 3A benevolent elf that supposedly haunts houses and does housework secretly.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Heathens also work with ‘hidden folk’ such as elves, brownies, dwarves and etins (giants and other not so pleasant folk).
    • If you added to it the adventures of the Famous Five as they tackled smugglers and pirates and thieves, and the magical escapades of brownies and elves, you get something close to Harry Potter.
    • In England the hobgoblin was as helpful a sprite as the brownie and was also known as Robin Goodfellow or Puck.
    • It wasn't often that Murdoch truly appreciated a practical joke but Johnny's contention that they had a leprechaun or a brownie in the house was too good to pass up.
    • He did not know what trouble this could bring, for people spoke of elves and imps and brownies living up in the hills.

Origin

Early 16th century (in sense 3): diminutive of brown (a ‘wee brown man’ often appears in Scottish ballads and fairy tales).

Rhymes

browny, downy, townie

Definition of brownie in US English:

brownie

nounˈbrounēˈbraʊni
  • 1A small square of rich chocolate cake, typically containing nuts.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • About two years ago, Mona decided to set up a home-based chocolate business and expanded her product line by adding cookies, brownies and marble cakes.
    • But she forgot them all during a disastrous year in high school when she lived in suburban Boston as an exchange student and gained 20 pounds on a diet of brownies and chocolate chip cookies.
    • And then we would manage to ferret away all the chocolate brownies and ice cream we could get and gobbled them up until our stomachs were swollen, as though we were five months pregnant.
    • When your body is too hungry and screams for quick energy, you can easily succumb to chocolate chip cookies, brownies or candy bars.
    • Try adding nuts or other dried fruits- or make plain chocolate brownies without any extras at all.
    • It could make cakes, cookies, brownies, pizzas, candy and pies.
    • As well as making mouthwatering delights such as chocolate brownies, cherry cakes, tea bread and fruit cakes, he can also turn his hand to preserves, pates and pork and Cumberland sausages.
    • These offered the most delicious apple strudel, chocolate brownies and buns!
    • But if I told you that you had a choice out of the crumble, home made chocolate brownies, a tiramisu dripping with brandy, and a rich crème brûlée, you might find that you didn't want the crumble after all.
    • When he went on a trip to Europe, he brought me back some brownies and some Lindt chocolate - to me that is still the best chocolate in the world.
    • I bend down to inspect the chocolate chip brownies and to try to figure out how many I can have without spoiling my appetite for dinner.
    • As for me, I don't think I could survive without my brownies and chocolate chips.
    • The next day, I raised the bar and went for a fudge brownie with chocolate chips.
    • I once partnered an Australian sparkling ale with chocolate brownies for a laugh and the result was delicious.
    • This glaze also will work on a pan of brownies, a pound cake, even a fruit tart.
    • And the restaurant sells its own line of chocolate candies, brownies, and sumptuous dessert toppings from a retail counter up front.
    • Kathy came up a minute later to check on them and set a plate of chocolate chip brownies on the side table by her bed where they sat.
    • Like brownies, chocolate cake is loved by everyone.
    • If you're making your own pound cake, brownies or angel food cake for the chocolate fondue, get baking.
    • The brownies are rich and full of chocolate flavor.
  • 2A member of the junior branch of the Girl Scouts, for girls aged between about 6 and 8.

    for my birthday I want to join the Brownies
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Rainbows is a group for girls aged between five and seven, before they join the Brownies.
    • ‘Some girls come who just love the Brownies but don't want to do badges,’ Mandy said.
    • Then one of the Brownies asked me, ‘Did you remember to replace the earth you dug from the hole when you rose the following morning?’
    • Participation in Cub Scouts, Brownies, or other scouts accounted for 5.6% of the children.
    • She went to Dauntsey's Primary School in West Lavington and was a Brownie with the local group in West Lavington.
    • When I was in elementary school in Colorado, I was a Brownie and then a Girl Scout until the age of 12 when we moved to Kansas.
    • To help them complete their badges the Brownies contacted the police who asked them to design crime prevention posters.
    • As of now the Schools, Girl Guides, and The Brownies have shown an interest to use, and continue using the facility.
    • An enthusiast since joining the Brownies aged seven, she believes the movement has a huge amount to offer.
    • It seems I have broken some cultural taboo by being white and a non-Christian and, ironically enough, it did always strike me as strange that our multi-cultural neighbourhood had not one brown face in the Brownies at the local church.
    • The cash will be used to renovate the Scout building, also used by Cubs, Brownies, Guides and Venture Scouts.
    • Nearly everyone takes part, including the Brownies and the Highland dancers.
    • I only just avoided being drummed out of the Brownies.
    • Almost 300,000 Brownies in Britain, aged between seven and ten, will wear the new uniform.
    • I've been selling Girl Scout cookies since first grade, when I was a Brownie.
    • After serving as a Brownie and then a Guide with the Eastbrook Hall group in Bradford, she moved to St Stephen's at West Bowling where she became a Guide Lieutenant.
    • He added that the gala committee had been greatly assisted by the Old White Bear public house, which stepped in at the eleventh hour to provide refreshments, and the Brownies who cleared the tables.
    • Still, rebellion had a dress code and I followed it as sedulously as I had the one for the Brownies and Catholic School.
    • Now I'm not a qualified doctor (I got my First Aid badge in the Brownies - does that count?) but if I were to hazard a diagnosis, I'd say that this is not a syndrome, it's just life.
    • A letter was received from Lesley Wade asking if the Brownies could paint a mural inside the bus shelter on boards.
    • Mrs Griffiths said: ‘In the Brownies, as well as doing their badges, the girls learn do research for themselves.’
    • Maybe it's like being a Girl Scout or a Brownie and some how or other, you fly up and make it into Manipura just in the nick of time and you're headed home free before you know it.
    • Men, youth and children have also taken part in the effort, including Girl Scouts, Brownies, Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts.
    • All little girls aged seven years old and over are welcome to join the Brownies.
    • Girls wishing to join Brownies should attend on Thursday 22nd.
    • Best Float was won by the Brownies in Flintstone outfits and Bedrock cars and Nursery Rhymes won best walking in their Thomas the Tank Engine locomotives.
    • I joined when I was ten after the Brownies and then I really wanted this award called the Baden-Powell award.
    • A BRAVE Brownie who survived two strokes is looking forward to celebrating Christmas at home with her family.
    • Keen to join the Brownies, she was told she would have to attend church.
    • Sophie, who has been a Brownie herself, takes over the presidency following the death of Princess Margaret in February last year.
    • She was a Brownie, Guide and Ranger as well as belonging to the Girls' Friendly Society.
    • Members of the Girl Guides and the Brownies provided the entertainment for the evening.
    • Happy camping to all the Brownies and their leaders who are going on their annual weekend camp to Ballina on Friday, May 27.
    • The former St Edmund's pupil has been involved with the Guide movement since she joined the Brownies at the age of seven.
  • 3A benevolent elf supposed to haunt houses and do housework secretly.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He did not know what trouble this could bring, for people spoke of elves and imps and brownies living up in the hills.
    • If you added to it the adventures of the Famous Five as they tackled smugglers and pirates and thieves, and the magical escapades of brownies and elves, you get something close to Harry Potter.
    • It wasn't often that Murdoch truly appreciated a practical joke but Johnny's contention that they had a leprechaun or a brownie in the house was too good to pass up.
    • In England the hobgoblin was as helpful a sprite as the brownie and was also known as Robin Goodfellow or Puck.
    • Heathens also work with ‘hidden folk’ such as elves, brownies, dwarves and etins (giants and other not so pleasant folk).

Origin

Early 16th century (in brownie (sense 3)): diminutive of brown (a ‘wee brown man’ often appears in Scottish ballads and fairy tales).

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