brownie
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 →
2) A Brownie: a younger member of the Girl Guides or Girl Scouts. tree →
3) (folklore) A small kind elf that secretly helps with housework at night. tree →
4) Brownie points (informal): imaginary credit for doing something to please someone. tree →
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 →
- We cut the tray into 24 brownies. tree →
- My sister goes to Brownies on Tuesday nights. tree →
- If 3 children share 12 brownies, each gets 4. tree →
- Doing the dishes will earn you brownie points. tree →
- In the old story, a brownie cleaned the kitchen while the family slept. tree →
- ‘It is I, the brownie of the lake,’ replied the voice. tree →
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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.