(n.) An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
Example Sentences:
(1) It seemed like a very strange decision to reduce the amount of affordable housing, just as the housing market was improving.” After lodging a request to see the viability assessment, Brownie began an 18-month battle with Greenwich council that ended in tribunal in January, with another landmark decision in favour of releasing the documents for public scrutiny.
(2) As soon as I step through the door everything changes from student progress and teaching resources to making teas, driving to Brownies, bath and bedtime.
(3) Indeed he is, with extra brownie points for brown-nosing Hanks with a love-in sketch reprising the great man’s career .
(4) The oath now reads: "I promise that I will do my best: to be true to myself and develop my beliefs, to serve the Queen and my community, to help other people and to keep the (Brownie) Guide law."
(5) Arsenal's Emirates Stadium also has excellent eco credentials and the fact that an estimated 70% of Gunners' supporters use public transport to get to games gives the club further brownie (or should that be greenie) points.
(6) She tells me she made brownies for the crew during one previous shoot.
(7) In one video, the attackers – named by Palestinian media as Muhammad and Khalid Muhamra – can be seeing sitting in dark suits and white shirts at a table in the popular Max Brenner restaurant, where they had reportedly ordered drinks and chocolate brownies, before standing up suddenly and firing at close range at fellow diners.
(8) As a jobcentre adviser, I got ‘brownie points’ for cruelty | Mary O’Hara Read more People who disregard Loach’s film as unrealistic proselytising might do well to spend some time actually asking the people affected about their experiences of the labyrinthine housing and benefits system.
(9) Those who stand for the council or raise money at church fetes for a social centre; charity workers sorting and pricing old DVDs in a shop; Brownie pack leaders and hospital volunteers – all are big-society people, driven by a variety of motives including ideology, faith, guilt and loneliness.
(10) She denied being homophobic or racist, and said she was against taking drugs, insisting that a reference on Twitter to making "hash brownies" was from a Scooby Doo film.
(11) He then proceeds to push a tray of government-branded brownies, before a stooge cop comes in and tries to arrest a couple of highly confused students.
(12) But it's polite, and it frees up your brain for more important tasks, such as curing disease or baking brownies.
(13) While her dogged stance earned her brownie points with German voters, behind the scenes other EU officials, including those from France, were briefing that it was her dithering that had worsened the crisis.
(14) "Apart from being vulcanised or smoked, it can be vaporised, which is much less harmful, or in food such as brownies," said Calzada.
(15) Barbecued cauliflower with hazelnut butter The hazelnut butter takes a while to process, so make a decent batch: it keeps for months in the fridge, and works well as a replacement for butter in vegan brownies and biscuits; it's ace on toast, too.
(16) I thought it was a bit odd that such a drastic change to the makeup one of London’s biggest regeneration projects was tabled just before Christmas [2012] – and that it wasn’t consulted on, but was quickly passed with very few questions being asked,” says Brownie.
(17) Chocolate, sugar, butter, flour (the brownie) – delicious, but insane.
(18) The cannabis-infused products include lollipops, gummy sweets, cookies, brownies, cartons of grape, mango and cherry juice, and chocolate bars in foil packets with exotic flavours such as banana and walnut.
(19) 35S-thiophosphorylated enzyme was prepared by incubation of pig heart succinyl-CoA synthetase with [35S]GTP gamma S. A comparison was made of thiophosphoryl group release by substrates from this alpha beta (one active site) enzyme with that of the alpha 2 beta 2 (two active sites) Escherichia coli enzyme (Wolodko, W. T., Brownie, E. R., O'Connor, M. D., and Bridger, W. A.
(20) In her tweets, she referred to Travellers as "pikeys" and homosexuals as "fags", and talked about hash brownies.
Mythical
Definition:
(a.) Of or relating to myths; described in a myth; of the nature of a myth; fabulous; imaginary; fanciful.
Example Sentences:
(1) And this isn’t a thrill confined to some mythical vanished golden age.
(2) And yet, the spirit of '68 endures, perhaps mythical, perhaps as a lingering sense of the possibilities that mass activism once had.
(3) There is no point hiding behind national strategies or constructing a mythical Maginot line in cyberspace.
(4) Such curiosity is not a big ask, and demanding such rigorous thinking from tutors seems a much more effective way of getting diverse students into top universities than creating a mythical list of "better" subjects, writing them into the league tables and thereby sanctioning the lazy dismissal of anyone who does not fit the mould.
(5) nonanon1 23 November 2016 2:49pm "Austerity may have been ditched, with the increasingly mythical goal of a budget surplus booted into the distant future, but the pain associated with it may simply be moving elsewhere."
(6) This mythical piece of plastic is so valued, so sought after that, initially, Nando's PR would not confirm its actual existence.
(7) They always keep it top side up and never, for equally mythical reasons, cut it from both ends.
(8) “One could clearly see from the evidence presented that Mladić, Karadžić and others from the Serb leadership of the time were not mythical characters – neither monsters, as the Bosniak victim narrative paints them, nor heroes and “fathers of the nation” as they are presented by the dominant Serb politic – but banal, self-centred opportunists drunk on the unchecked power to command lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
(9) Tattoos, especially large, intricate motifs of mythical beasts and shogun-era courtesans , are traditionally associated in Japan with yakuza gang membership.
(10) Telling the surreal story of the lives, loves and dreams of the inhabitants of the mythical Welsh seaside town of Llareggub (read it backwards), it had first appeared in identifiable form as "Quite Early One Morning", a short story for the BBC in 1944.
(11) The simple narrative, built around the near-mythical Christmas truce between the trenches of 1914, has just the right blend of poignancy and sentimentality to bring a tear to the most cynical eye.
(12) Though the crime in itself did not interest Capote especially ("the subject matter", he said, "was purely incidental") he instinctively understood that the killings had a mythical or universal quality, and that "murder was a theme not likely to darken and yellow with time".
(13) Self-awareness emerges from the evolutionary transformation of material structures into magical, mythical and mental structures of consciousness.
(14) Gathered close to the mythic Gulf of Carpentaria, far from the booing stadiums down south, the continent-spanning show of unity was moving to witness.
(15) What is most ironic is that much of the evacuated population has been given refuge in those same almost mythical work camps (which are hotel-like accommodations for workers in distant areas).
(16) The first thinks this country can be like a mythic America, that we only need to rip up red tape, abolish our planning system – invariably "sclerotic" – and allow people to build their log cabins or, rather, ranch-style homes with four-car garages wherever they like.
(17) But it has morphed into a much more ambitious concept for a colossal new waterfront city, fanning out from sea wall in the shape of a garuda – the mythical bird of Hindu origin that is the country’s national symbol – with a multilane ring road for the perennially traffic-clogged capital running along its rim.
(18) Over the last 100 years, gothic film has meant first of all the screening of these archetypal tales, and then the adaptation of their mythic spirit to modern life's still darker rigours.
(19) This mythical creature has been credited with playing a key role in events of the last few days.
(20) Fulfillment of the doctrine of informed consent by neurosurgeons may very well be mythical.