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3 words match “BROWNIE”

BROWNIE n.
An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping. [Scot.]
GOOD a.
w, a person of companionable qualities. [Familiar] -- Good folk, or Good people, fairies; brownies; pixies, etc. [Colloq. Eng. & Scot.] -- Good for nothing. (a) Of no value; useless; worthless. (b) Used substantively, an idle, worthless person. My father always said I was born to be a good for nothing. Ld. Lytton. -- G…
KOBOLD n.
A kind of domestic spirit in German mythology, corresponding to the Scottish brownie and the English Robin Goodfellow.