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brownie
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)
- (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.
- 2000, Lori Gottlieb, Stick Figure: a diary of my former self, page 173,
- (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.
- (paganism) A household spirit or revered ancestor.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Eurasian genus Miletus.
- (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
- (informal) The widow rockfish (Sebastes entomelas), a fish in the family Sebastidae.
- Coordinate term: greenie
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
- (ethnic slur, offensive) A person of Arab, Indian or Hispanic descent. Sometimes used for a Native American or Pacific Islander.
- (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)
- 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)
- brownie (type of small chocolate cake)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English brownie.
Noun
brownie m (plural brownies)
- brownie (type of small chocolate cake)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English brownie.
Noun
brownie m (plural brownies)
- brownie
Derived terms
- brownie rubia (“blondie”)
brownie From the web:
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sprite
English
Alternative forms
- spright (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spiritus. Doublet of spirit.
(computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s.
Pronunciation
- enPR: spr?t, IPA(key): /sp?a?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Noun
sprite (plural sprites)
- (mythology) A spirit; a soul; a shade
- 1803, William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
- He who torments the chafer's sprite
- Weaves a bower in endless night.
- 1803, William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
- An apparition; ghost
- (mythology) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
- (computer graphics) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
- An electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm.
- The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
- (entomology) Any of various African damselflies of the genus Pseudagrion (of which, Australian species are named riverdamsels).
- A spayed female ferret.
- (obsolete) Alternative form of spright (“frame of mind, disposition”)
Synonyms
- (supernatural creature): See goblin (hostile)
Related terms
- sprightly
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (supuraito)
Translations
Anagrams
- Pitres, Presti, Priest, esprit, pierst, priest, re-tips, respit, retips, ripest, sitrep, stripe, tripes
Finnish
Etymology
From English sprite.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sprite/, [?s?prit?e?]
- IPA(key): /?spr?i?t?i/, [?s?pr?i?t??i] (approximating English pronunciation; inflects like risti)
- Rhymes: -ite
- Syllabification: spri?te
Noun
sprite
- (computer graphics) sprite
Declension
Anagrams
- ripset
sprite From the web:
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- what sprite does to your body
- what sprite means
- what sprite flavors are there
- sprite cranberry
- what's sprite made of
- what's sprite cranberry
- what's sprite made out of
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