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name
Brookside, a British television soap opera.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, informal
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noun
A brook trout.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
A dessert with one layer being a cookie and the other being a brownie.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Short pants; shorts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: South-Africa
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History
From Brookside + -ie.
From brook + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Blend of brownie + cookie.
From Afrikaans broekie, diminutive of broek (“pants”), from Dutch broek (“pants”). Cognate with Dutch broekje (“shorts”). Doublet of breeches and britches.
