brownie

noun10

1. •
   A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.

   • Order for the brownie was placed but it took half an hour to prepare it.
2. •
   A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.

   • "Oh, auntie, do you know what Stine says?" cried a little brown-eyed beauty; "she says I shall go with her into the hayloft to-night and give the brownie his Christmas porridge." — 1886
3. •
   A household spirit or revered ancestor.
4. •
   (offensive) A person with brown skin.
5. •
   (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
6. •
   (Australia, informal) A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
7. •
   A copper coin, brown in colour; a penny, halfpenny, or cent.

   • He rose and jingled in his pockets for change and drew out two brownies. He went and set one on each of Monroe’s eyes[.] — 1997
8. •
   (Australia, New-Zealand) A sweet bread with brown sugar and currants.

   • Four o’clock, “Smoke O!” again, and more tea and “brownie” (a bread sweetened with sugar and currants). — 1890
9. •
   Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Eurasian genus Miletus.
10. •
    (informal) A widow rockfish (Sebastes entomelas), a fish in the family Sebastidae.

noun2

1. •
   (UK, Australia) A junior Girl Guide.

   • In Toronto young Brownies of the Girl Guides, the Canadian girl scouts, stood in parade formation with full-fledged Guides. — 1958
2. •
   (US) A junior Girl Scout.