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noun Informal.
a credit toward advancement or good standing gained especially by currying favor.
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Origin of Brownie point
First recorded in 1960–65; from the point system based on good behavior and performance used by Brownies for advancement
Words nearby Brownie point
Brownian motion,
Brownian movement,
brownie,
Brownie Guide,
Brownie Guider,
Brownie point,
brownie points,
brown induration of the lung,
Browning,
Browning automatic rifle,
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How to use Brownie point in a sentence
The citizens of Stevens Point defeated fluoridation by a healthy margin.
Deep, situational, and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a POINT!
To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
Therefore, it is not possible for any F-35 schedule to include a video data link or infrared pointer at this point.
But the most important point I want to make is about what the press does now.
This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.
His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.
Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.
That is the only point in which one sees Liszt's sense of his own greatness; otherwise his manner is remarkably unassuming.
When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.
British Dictionary definitions for Brownie point
noun
a notional mark to one's credit earned for being seen to do the right thing
Word Origin for Brownie point
C20: from the mistaken notion that Brownie Guides earn points for good deeds
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