/brow"nee/ , n.
1. a tiny, fanciful, good-natured brown elf who secretly helps at night with household chores.
2. a small, chewy, cakelike cookie, usually made with chocolate and containing nuts.
3. Australian. a bread with currants, baked in a camp oven.
4. ( sometimes cap. ) a member of the junior division of the Girl Scouts or the Girl Guides, being a girl in the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade and usually between 6 and 8 years old.
[ 1505-15; BROWN + -IE; in folkloric sense, orig. Scots ]
Syn. 1. See fairy .