Brownie

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim A sweet bread with brown sugar and currants.

   “It was an amusing sight to see the three of us, each with a huge hunch of “browny” (bread sweetened with brown sugar and currants) in one hand, and a lump of ice in the other, for there was no water within reach.”

3. isim A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.

   “"Oh, auntie, do you know what Stine says?" cried a little brown-eyed beauty; "she says I shall go with her into the hayloft to-night and give the brownie his Christmas porridge."”

4. isim A copper coin, brown in colour; a penny, halfpenny, or cent.

   “He rose and jingled in his pockets for change and drew out two brownies. He went and set one on each of Monroe’s eyes[.]”

5. isim A household spirit or revered ancestor.
6. isim Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Eurasian genus Miletus.
7. isim A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
8. isim A widow rockfish (Sebastes entomelas), a fish in the family Sebastidae.

   “Depending upon the species, fishers may harvest along the ocean floor for many rockfish and other groundfish, while hake, pollock, and some rockfish species (i.e. greenies and brownies) are targeted with mid-water trawls.”

9. isim Alternative letter-case form of Brownie (“a girl in the first level of Girl Guides (US: Girl Scouts)”).
10. isim A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
11. isim A person with brown skin.
12. isim A junior Girl Guide.

    “1958 July 14, Boot by a Brash Brownie, LIFE, page 124, In Toronto young Brownies of the Girl Guides, the Canadian girl scouts, stood in parade formation with full-fledged Guides.”

13. isim A junior Girl Scout.

    “Most marchers were children, Girl and Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and Brownies. One Cub Scout pulled his sister in a Radio Flyer decorated with small American flags. A Brownie pushed a baby carriage crammed with a zoo of stuffed animals.”

14. özel isim A nickname of the surname Brown.