(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.
Rosebud
Definition:
(n.) The flower of a rose before it opens, or when but partially open.
Example Sentences:
(1) The serosurvey was performed shortly after a large hepatitis A epidemic on the Pine Ridge reservation in 1983-84, and immediately before a large hepatitis A epidemic on the Rosebud reservation in 1985-86.
(2) In a recent cartoon he criticised the regime's offers of reforms, with a picture of an official with rosebuds in his speech bubble – and a turd in his head.
(3) Significantly higher levels of both pregnancy and non-pregnancy serum copper were observed in the Rosebud population compared to that in southeastern South Dakota, possibly due to the significantly higher level of copper in the Rosebud water.
(4) (1965), an interesting comedy that never lived up to all its starry contributors; How to Steal a Million (1966), a dud with Audrey Hepburn – viewers asked which star was thinner and more wide-eyed; The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) – as several angels – for John Huston; The Night of the Generals (1967); Great Catherine (1968); Murphy's War (1971); Under Milk Wood (1972) – with Burton and Taylor; Man of La Mancha (1972); Rosebud (1975); Man Friday (1975).
(5) There is no one-armed, patched and restuffed Rosebud burning in the fires of memory.
(6) The distribution of the serum levels of selenium, zinc, and copper in human pregnancy at various gestational ages were determined from two ethnically and geographically different populations (Rosebud Indian Reservation and southeastern South Dakota) of 410 normal subjects.
(7) The surprisingly high anti-HAV seroprevalence among young children at Rosebud, where clinical hepatitis A had been virtually absent in the previous seven years, indicates that high-grade silent transmission was taking place during the interepidemic period.
(8) In the final scenes of Citizen Kane, the protagonist’s childhood sledge, “Rosebud”, is thrown on a fire and lost.
(9) Seropositivity rose rapidly with age; by age 40, more than 90 percent of persons at both Pine Ridge and Rosebud were anti-HAV positive.
(10) Sometimes it’s nice to reflect Mostly b) Diagnosis: nostalgish Mostly c) What’s ‘Rosebud’?
(11) The overall seroprevalence for antibodies to hepatitis A virus (anti-HAV) was 76.2 percent (Pine Ridge reservation 80.5 percent, Rosebud reservation 72.0 percent, relative risk = 1.12, 95 percent confidence interval = 1.01, 1.24).
(12) When large, such adenopathies, which surround the portal vein, hepatic artery, and bile duct, give rise to a particular ultrasound pattern: the "rosebud pattern."
(13) Most important among the differences are the conformation of the baseplate (a closed rosebud) and the positioning of the tail fibers (retracted).
(14) And on the other is the elections clerk for Rosebud County, Geraldine Custer, whose husband is a direct descendant of the ill-fated general.
(15) For age groups 0 to 4 years, 54.2 percent and 36.1 percent of children were seropositive at Pine Ridge and Rosebud, respectively.
(16) In June 1985 a population-based serosurvey for viral hepatitis involving 120 households was conducted at the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Sioux Indian reservations in South Dakota.
(17) She has front teeth to make you stare – long and gappy – and a rosebud mouth painted something arresting.
(18) Aedes vexans was the most abundant species except on the Pine Ridge, Rosebud, Winnebago and Yankton Sioux reservations in which Culex tarsalis predominated and for the Sac-n-Fox where Aedes trivittatus occurred with the greatest frequency.