英语词汇brownie的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	brownie
词源	brownie. This friendly country goblin of folklore helps with household chores at night when all the house is asleep. It was a long series of popular illustrated books by Québec-born author and artist Palmer Cox (1840–1924) that made the brownies popular. The first of the series was The Brownies: Their Book (1887).
随便看	on the boards on the bum on the carpet on the cuff on the fritz on the hind tit teat on the hip on the house on the lam on the level on the make on the nail on the nose on the pad on the pig-s back on the qui vive on the rocks on the ropes on the same sheet of music with on the shady side of 40 on the side of the angels on the spot on the spree on the square on the tip of my tongue

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