单词 | brownie |
释义 | brownie /brow"nee/, n. 1. a tiny, fanciful, good-natured brown elf who secretly helps at night with household chores. 2. a small, chewy, cakelike cookie, usually made with chocolate and containing nuts. 3. Australian. a bread with currants, baked in a camp oven. 4. (sometimes cap.) a member of the junior division of the Girl Scouts or the Girl Guides, being a girl in the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade and usually between 6 and 8 years old. [1505-15; BROWN + -IE; in folkloric sense, orig. Scots] Syn. 1. See fairy. |
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