brookie
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See also: Brookie
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From brook + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Noun
[edit]brookie (plural brookies)
- (informal) A brook trout.
- 2007 October 16, Adam Clymer, “The Size of the Brook Trout Is in the Eye of the Fishing-Rod Holder”, in New York Times[1]:
- The brookie Bill dismissed as “another small one” was 16 inches long, thick and weighed about two pounds.
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]brookie (plural brookies)
- A dessert with one layer being a cookie and the other being a brownie.
- 2016, Alysa Levene, Cake: A Slice of History, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN:
- We now have crookies, brookies, duffins, and cruffins, all mash-ups of familiar treats (cookies, tarts, brownies, doughnuts, croissants and muffins respectively).
- 2016 October 27, Tracy Beckerman, “Pass me a cronut or maybe a duffin!”, in The Gazette, page 10:
- They were not only combining doughnuts and muffins, but just about any other kind of food you could think of. There were piecakens (a pie baked inside a cake), brookies (brownie and cookie) and cherpumples (cherry, pumpkin and apple pie).
- 2019, Martha Stewart’s Cookie Perfection, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 173:
- When you can’t decide between a cookie and a brownie, why not make both—in the same pan—for what we fondly refer to as the “brookie.”