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Cookie vs Brownie - What's the difference?

cookie | brownie |

As nouns the difference between cookie and brownie

is that cookie is a small, flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm (often with chocolate chips, candies or nuts mixed in) while brownie is a small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.

cookie

English

(wikipedia cookie)

Alternative forms

* (uncommon)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A small, flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm (often with chocolate chips, candies or nuts mixed in).
  • (label) A specifically American-style (l).
  • (label) A bun.
  • An (l), web cookie.
  • (label) A (l).
  • A young, attractive woman.
  • The female genitalia.
  • * 2009 , T. R. Oulds, Story of Many Secret Night , Lulu.com (2010), ISBN 9781409285816, unnumbered page:
  • Her legs hung over the edge and the large towel covered just enough of her lap to hide her 'cookie' .
  • * 2010 , Lennie Ross, Blow me , Lulu.com (2010), ISBN 9781257133819, page 47:
  • If she wanted to compete in this dog-eat-pussy world, she had to keep up her personal grooming, even if it meant spreading her legs and letting some Vietnamese woman rip the hair off her cookie every other week.
  • * 2014 , (Nicki Minaj), "" (Clean Version), (w) :
  • Cookie put his butt to sleep, now he callin' me Nyquil.

    Synonyms

    * (cake) (l), (l) (qualifier)

    Derived terms

    , (l) , (l) , (l) , (l) , (l) , (l) , (l) , , (l)}}

    See also

    * (l) (UK) * * * ----

    brownie

    English

    (wikipedia brownie) (Chocolate brownie)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
  • * 2000 , , Stick Figure: a diary of my former self , page 173,
  • if she ever found out she was dying, she'd just eat brownies all day and night until the very end.
  • * 2005 , Aaron Lazare, On Apology , unnumbered page,
  • On a Saturday afternoon, my wife bought her favorite treat for dessert that evening, a gourmet, nut-filled brownie .
  • * 2005 , Steve Otto, Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie , page 228,
  • After cooking the brownies' until we could smell the pot, we each ate a large ' brownie .
  • (folklore) A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would do people's housework for them.
  • * 1908', , '' The Adventures of A '''Brownie .
  • * 1985 , The Encyclopedia Americana , Volume 1, page 636,
  • Stories were told of a brownie riding horseback to fetch the midwife at childbirth or helping his master to win at checkers.
  • * 2004 , Justin Hocking, Jeffrey Knutson, Jared Jacang Maher (editors), Life and Limb: Skateboarders Write from the Deep End , page 37,
  • There are no brownies in my house, though. I know because there's always a pile of dishes in the sink.
  • (paganism) A household spirit or revered ancestor.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
  • (ethnic slur, offensive) A person of Arab, Indian or Hispanic descent. Also rarely used for a Native American or Pacific Islander.
  • Derived terms

    * chocolate brownie * hash brownie