Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Synonyymit
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| espanja | brownie |
| hollanti | elf |
| japani | ブラウニー (buraunī) |
| portugali | brownie |
| ranska | gnome |
| ruotsi | tomte |
| saksa | Brownie |
| suomi | mokkapala, brownie, kotitonttu |
| tšekki | šotek |
| venäjä | домовой (domovoi), бра́уни (bráuni) |
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (usually countable, baking, originally US) A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
- (uncountable, baking, Australia and New Zealand) A sweet bread with brown sugar and currants.
- (folklore) A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.
- A copper coin, brown in colour; a penny, halfpenny, or cent.
- (paganism) A household spirit or revered ancestor.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Eurasian genus Miletus.
- (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
- (informal) A widow rockfish (Sebastes entomelas), a fish in the family Sebastidae.
- Alternative letter-case form of Brownie (“a girl in the first level of Girl Guides (US: Girl Scouts)”).
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
- (ethnic slur, offensive) A person with brown skin.
Esimerkit
- [...]if she ever found out she was dying, she'd just eat brownies all day and night until the very end.
- On a Saturday afternoon, my wife bought her favorite treat for dessert that evening, a gourmet, nut-filled brownie.
- After cooking the brownies until we could smell the pot, we each ate a large brownie.
- 1908, Dinah Craik, The Adventures of A Brownie.
- Stories were told of a brownie riding horseback to fetch the midwife at childbirth or helping his master to win at checkers.
- There are no brownies in my house, though. I know because there's always a pile of dishes in the sink.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | brownies |
Luokat
(folklore) A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.
Illustration of a brownie sweeping with a handmade broom by Alice B. Woodward.
(paganism) A household spirit or revered ancestor.
Roman Lararium, or household shrine to the Lares, from the House of the Vettii in Pompeii. Brownies bear many similarities to the Roman Lares.
(folklore) A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.
A recurring folkloric motif holds that, if presented with clothing, a brownie will leave his family forever and never work for them again, similar to the Wichtelmänner in the German story of "The Elves and the Shoemaker".