brookie

See also: Brookie

English

Etymology 1

From brook +‎ -ie (diminutive suffix).

Noun

brookie (plural brookies)

1. (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

Blend of brownie +‎ cookie.

Noun

brookie (plural brookies)

1. 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.”

Anagrams

• bookier