brownie

Meanings

1. A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
2. A sweet bread with brown sugar and currants.
3. A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.
4. A copper coin, brown in colour; a penny, halfpenny, or cent.
5. A household spirit or revered ancestor.
6. Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Eurasian genus Miletus.
7. A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
8. A widow rockfish (Sebastes entomelas), a fish in the family Sebastidae.
9. Alternative letter-case form of Brownie (“a girl in the first level of Girl Guides (US: Girl Scouts)”).
10. A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
11. A person with brown skin.

1. A junior Girl Guide.
2. A junior Girl Scout.

1. A nickname of the surname Brown.

Etymology

From brown + -ie (diminutive suffix). In folkloric sense, originally Scots. For sense 7, compare with Dutch kabouter (“a very young female member of the scout movement”) (literally "gnome").