different between brownie vs leprechaun

English

Etymology

From brown +? -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?a?ni/
• Rhymes: -a?ni
• Hyphenation: brown?ie

Noun

brownie (plural brownies)

1. (cooking) A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
   • 2000, Lori Gottlieb, Stick Figure: a diary of my former self, page 173,

     […] if she ever found out she was dying, she'd just eat brownies all day and night until the very end.

   • 2005, Aaron Lazare, On Apology, unnumbered page,

     On a Saturday afternoon, my wife bought her favorite treat for dessert that evening, a gourmet, nut-filled brownie.

   • 2005, Steve Otto, Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie, page 228,

     After cooking the brownies until we could smell the pot, we each ate a large brownie.

2. (folklore) A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.
   • 1908, Dinah Craik, The Adventures of A Brownie.
   • 1985, The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 1, page 636,

     Stories were told of a brownie riding horseback to fetch the midwife at childbirth or helping his master to win at checkers.

   • 2004, Justin Hocking, Jeffrey Knutson, Jared Jacang Maher (editors), Life and Limb: Skateboarders Write from the Deep End, page 37,

     There are no brownies in my house, though. I know because there's always a pile of dishes in the sink.

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

   Coordinate term: greenie

7. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
8. (ethnic slur, offensive) A person of Arab, Indian or Hispanic descent. Sometimes used for a Native American or Pacific Islander.
9. (US) A girl in the first level of girl scouts.

Derived terms

• chocolate brownie
• hash brownie

Translations

Descendants

• ? French: brownie
• ? German: Brownie

Further reading

• brownie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chocolate brownie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English brownie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?o.ni/, /b??.ni/

Noun

brownie f (plural brownies)

1. brownie (type of small chocolate cake)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English brownie.

Noun

brownie m (definite singular brownien, indefinite plural browniar, definite plural browniane)

1. brownie (type of small chocolate cake)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English brownie.

Noun

brownie m (plural brownies)

1. brownie (type of small chocolate cake)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English brownie.

Noun

brownie m (plural brownies)

1. brownie

Derived terms

• brownie rubia (“blondie”)

English

Alternative forms

• lepracaun

Etymology

From Irish leipreachán, luprachán, from Middle Irish luchrupán, from Old Irish luchorpán. See also Irish lucharachán.

The word's further etymology is disputed; it is traditionally explained as a compound containing lú (“small”, from Proto-Indo-European *h?leng??-) + corp (“body”, which is from Latin corpus). However, an alternative suggestion is that it is a derivative of Latin Luperc? (“priests of Lupercus”), who were misinterpreted as an antediluvian species by medieval Irish scholars.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?p??k??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?pr??k?n/, /?l?pr??k?n/

Noun

leprechaun (plural leprechauns)

1. (Irish folklore) One of a race of elves that can reveal hidden treasure to those who catch them.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• leprechaun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Alternative forms

• leprecano, lepricauno, leprecauno (adapted forms)

Etymology

Borrowed from English leprechaun, from Irish leipreachán, luprachán, from Middle Irish luchrupán, from Old Irish luchorpán, of disputed etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.pre.kon/, /?l?.pri.kon/

Noun

leprechaun m (invariable)

1. (Irish folklore) leprechaun

   Synonyms: gnomo irlandese, folletto irlandese

Derived terms

• leprechaunismo