'Brownie' definitions:
Definition of 'Brownie'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Brownie'
From: GCIDE
- Brownie \Brown"ie\, n. [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. [Scot.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'brownie'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apple-polisher,
- Ariel,
- ass-licker,
- backscratcher,
- backslapper,
- banshee,
- Befind,
- biscuit,
- bootlick,
- bootlicker,
- brown-nose,
- clawback,
- cluricaune,
- cookie,
- Corrigan,
- courtier,
- creature,
- cringer,
- date bar,
- dupe,
- dwarf,
- elf,
- fairy,
- fairy queen,
- fawner,
- fay,
- Finnbeara,
- 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,
- Lilliputian,
- Mab,
- macaroon,
- manikin,
- mealymouth,
- midge,
- midget,
- minion,
- Oberon,
- 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,
- Titania,
- toad,
- toady,
- Tom Thumb,
- tool,
- truckler,
- tufthunter,
- wart,
- yes-man