Fawn
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English
Noun
Fawn (plural Fawns)Adjective
Fawn (not comparable)
- Of the fawn colour.
Derived terms
Verb
Fawn (third-person singular simple present Fawns, present participle Fawning, simple past and past participle Fawned)
- (intransitive) To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
- (intransitive) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour.
- (intransitive, of a dog) To wag its tail, to show devotion.
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Derived terms
Adjectives for Fawn
sportive; tender; new-roused; nursling; startled; leaping; gamboling; gentle.
Adverbs for Fawn
obsequiously; servilely; tenderly; sportively; gently; calculatingly; schemingly; slyly; traitorously; impiously.
Thesaurus
Cape elk, Virginia deer, abase, antelope, apple-polish, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, beige, bend the knee, birdling, blandish, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, buck, butter up, cajole, calf, calve, camel, camelopard, caribou, cast, cater to, catling, cave, chick, chickling, chicky, chocolate, cinnamon, coax, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, colt, cotton, court, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, cub, curry favor, dance, debase, deer, deerlet, defer, demean, doe, dogie, drab, dromedary, drop, duckling, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, ecru, eland, elk, fallow deer, farrow, fawn-colored, flatter, fledgling, foal, fryer, fuscous, gazelle, giraffe, give birth, gnu, gosling, grege, grovel, hart, hartebeest, have, have a baby, have young, hazel, hind, invite, kaama, khaki, kid, kit, kitten, kneel, kowtow, labor, lamb, lambkin, lick the dust, lickspittle, lie in, litter, lurid, make up to, moose, mule deer, musk deer, nest, nestling, nut-brown, okapi, olive-brown, olive-drab, pander to, piglet, pigling, polliwog, pullet, pup, puppy, red deer, reindeer, roe, roe deer, roebuck, seal, seal-brown, sepia, shoat, slaver, snuff-colored, sorrel, springbok, stag, stoop, submit, suck up to, tadpole, tan, taupe, tawny, throw, toadeat, toady, toast, toast-brown, travail, truckle, umber, umber-colored, walnut, walnut-brown, weaner, wheedle, whelp, wildebeest, woo, yean, yeanling, yellowish-brown, yield
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old French faon.
Etymology 2
Akin to Old Norse fagna (“to rejoice”)[1]
Translations
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See also
References
- ↑ fawn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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