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brownie

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Brown=ie

CIDE DICTIONARY

brownien. [So called from its supposed tawny or swarthy color.].
     An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

brownie, n.
1 (in full Brownie Guide) a member of the junior branch of the Guides.
2 (brownie) Cookery a a small square of rich, usu. chocolate, cake with nuts. b Austral. & NZ a sweet currant-bread.
3 (brownie) a benevolent elf said to haunt houses and do household work secretly.

Idiom
Brownie point colloq. a notional credit for something done to please or win favour.

THESAURUS

brownie

Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Finnbeara, Lilliputian, Mab, Oberon, Titania, Tom Thumb, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, banshee, biscuit, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, clawback, cluricaune, cookie, courtier, creature, cringer, date bar, dupe, dwarf, elf, fairy, fairy queen, fawner, fay, flatterer, flunky, footlicker, fruit bar, ginger snap, gingerbread man, gnome, goblin, gremlin, groveler, handshaker, helot, hob, homunculus, imp, instrument, jackal, kobold, kowtower, lackey, ladyfinger, led captain, leprechaun, lickspit, lickspittle, macaroon, manikin, mealymouth, midge, midget, minion, ouphe, peewee, peon, peri, pip-squeak, pixie, pooka, puca, puppet, pwca, pygmy, runt, serf, shortbread, shrimp, slave, spaniel, sprite, stooge, suck, sugar cookie, sycophant, sylph, sylphid, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, wart, yes-man

ROGET THESAURUS

brownie

Demon

N demon, daemon, demonry, demonology, evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil, bad spirit, unclean spirit, cacodemon, incubus, Eblis, shaitan, succubus, succuba, Frankenstein's monster, Titan, Shedim, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Moloch, Belial, Ahriman, fury, harpy, Friar Rush, vampire, ghoul, afreet, barghest, Loki, ogre, ogress, gnome, gin, jinn, imp, deev, lamia, bogie, bogeyman, bogle, nis, kobold, flibbertigibbet, fairy, brownie, pixy, elf, dwarf, urchin, Puck, Robin Goodfellow, leprechaun, Cluricaune, troll, dwerger, sprite, ouphe, bad fairy, nix, nixie, pigwidgeon, will-o'-the wisp, ghost, revenant, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision, hobglobin, goblin, orc, wraith, spook, boggart, banshee, loup-garou, lemures, evil eye, merman, mermaid, merfolk, siren, satyr, faun, manito, manitou, manitu, possession, demonic possession, diabolic possession, insanity, Maxwell's demon, demoniac, demonic, demonical, impish, demoniacal, fiendish, fiend-like, supernatural, weird, uncanny, unearthly, spectral, ghostly, ghost-like, elfin, elvin, elfish, elflike, haunted, pokerish, possessed, possessed by a devil, possessed by a demon, demonically.


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