brownie
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Brownie \Brown"ie\, n. [So called from its supposed tawny or
swarthy color.]
An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to
perform important services around the house by night, such as
thrashing, churning, sweeping. [Scot.]
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
95 Moby Thesaurus words for "brownie":
Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Finnbeara, Lilliputian, Mab, Oberon,
Titania, Tom Thumb, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher,
backslapper, banshee, biscuit, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose,
clawback, cluricaune, cookie, courtier, creature, cringer,
date bar, dupe, dwarf, elf, fairy, fairy queen, fawner, fay,
flatterer, flunky, footlicker, fruit bar, ginger snap,
gingerbread man, gnome, goblin, gremlin, groveler, handshaker,
helot, hob, homunculus, imp, instrument, jackal, kobold, kowtower,
lackey, ladyfinger, led captain, leprechaun, lickspit, lickspittle,
macaroon, manikin, mealymouth, midge, midget, minion, ouphe,
peewee, peon, peri, pip-squeak, pixie, pooka, puca, puppet, pwca,
pygmy, runt, serf, shortbread, shrimp, slave, spaniel, sprite,
stooge, suck, sugar cookie, sycophant, sylph, sylphid, timeserver,
toad, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, wart, yes-man
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