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# brownie

«brownie» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small square of rich, soft chocolate cake, often with nuts** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a brownie, brownies; a Brownie, Brownies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small square of rich, soft chocolate cake, often with nuts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brownie/#m1)

2) A Brownie: a younger member of the Girl Guides or Girl Scouts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brownie/#m2)

3) (folklore) A small kind elf that secretly helps with housework at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brownie/#m3)

4) Brownie points (informal): imaginary credit for doing something to please someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brownie/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life brownies are a favourite bake; in maths, a tray of brownies is cut into equal pieces for fractions and sharing (a tray cut into 4 rows of 6 makes 24 brownies). Phrases: a tray of brownies, brownie points, join the Brownies.

### examples

- Mum baked a tray of chocolate brownies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brownie/#x1)
- We cut the tray into 24 brownies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brownie/#x2)
- My sister goes to Brownies on Tuesday nights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brownie/#x3)
- If 3 children share 12 brownies, each gets 4. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brownie/#x4)
- Doing the dishes will earn you brownie points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brownie/#x5)
- In the old story, a brownie cleaned the kitchen while the family slept. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brownie/#x6)
- ‘It is I, the brownie of the lake,’ replied the voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brownie/#x7)

### note

Brownie as a group member takes a capital B. Brownie points are not real points. In maths, a tray cut into rows and columns has rows × columns pieces.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brownie» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brownie/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.