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[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 initial capital letter ) 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.
[5] Charles Brock·den [brok -duh  n] /ˈbrɒk dən/ , 1771–1810, U.S. novelist.
[6] Clifford Brownie , 1930–56, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
[7] Edmund Gerald, Jr. Jerry , born 1938, U.S. politician: governor of California 1975–83.
[8] Herbert Charles, 1912–2004, U.S. chemist, born in England: Nobel Prize 1979.
[9] James Nathaniel Jimmy , born 1936, U.S. football player and actor.
[10] John Old Brown of Osawatomie , 1800–59, U.S. abolitionist: leader of the attack at Harpers Ferry, where he was captured, tried for treason, and hanged.
[11] Margaret Wise, 1910–52, U.S. author noted for early-childhood books.
[12] Olympia, 1835–1926, U.S. women's-rights activist and Universalist minister: first American woman ordained by a major church.
[13] Robert, 1773–1858, Scottish botanist.
[14] (in folklore) an elf said to do helpful work at night, esp household chores
[15] a small square nutty chocolate cake
[16] Australian history a bread made with currants
[17] another name for Brownie Guide
[18] trademark (formerly) a popular make of simple box camera
[19] any of various colours, such as those of wood or earth, produced by low intensity light in the wavelength range 620–585 nanometres
[20] a dye or pigment producing these colours
[21] brown cloth or clothing dressed in brown
[22] any of numerous mostly reddish-brown butterflies of the genera Maniola, Lasiommata , etc, such as M. jurtina (meadow brown ): family Satyridae
[23] of the colour brown
[24] (of bread) made from a flour that has not been bleached or bolted, such as wheatmeal or wholemeal flour
[25] deeply tanned or sunburnt
[26] to make (esp food as a result of cooking) brown or (esp of food) to become brown
[27] Sir Arthur Whitten (ˈwɪt ə n). 1886–1948, British aviator who with J.W. Alcock made the first flight across the Atlantic (1919)
[28] Ford Madox . 1821–93, British painter, associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings include The Last of England (1865) and Work (1865)
[29] George (Alfred ), Lord George-Brown. 1914–85, British Labour politician; vice-chairman and deputy leader of the Labour party (1960–70); foreign secretary 1966–68
[30] George Mackay . 1921–96, Scottish poet, novelist, and short-story writer. His works, which include the novels Greenvoe (1972) and Magnus (1973), reflect the history and culture of Orkney
[31] (James ) Gordon . born 1951, British Labour politician; Chancellor of the Exchequer (1997–2007); prime minister (2007–10)
[32] Herbert Charles . 1912–2004, US chemist, who worked on the compounds of boron. Nobel prize for chemistry 1979
[33] James . 1933–2006, US soul singer and songwriter, noted for his dynamic stage performances and for his commitment to Black rights
[34] John . 1800–59, US abolitionist leader, hanged after leading an unsuccessful rebellion of slaves at Harper's Ferry, Virginia
[35] Lancelot , called Capability Brown . 1716–83, British landscape gardener
[36] Michael (Stuart ). born 1941, US physician: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1985) for work on cholesterol
[37] Robert . 1773–1858, Scottish botanist who was the first to observe the Brownian movement in fluids

Words related to Brownie

pixie, elf

Words nearby Brownie

browned off, browned-off, brownfield, brownian motion, brownian movement, brownie, brownie guide, brownie guider, brownie point, brownie points, browning

Origin of Brownie

1505–15; brown + -ie; in folkloric sense, orig. Scots

Word origin for Brownie

Old English brūn ; related to Old Norse brūnn , Old High German brūn , Greek phrunos toad, Sanskrit babhru reddish-brown

Synonyms for Brownie

elf, pixie