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Fawn   /fɔn/   Listen
noun
Fawn  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.
2.
The young of an animal; a whelp. (Obs.) "(The tigress)... followeth... after her fawns."
3.
A fawn color.


Fawn  n.  A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.


adjective
Fawn  adj.  Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.


verb
Fawn  v. i.  To bring forth a fawn.


Fawn  v. i.  (past & past part. fawned; pres. part. fawning)  To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; often followed by on or upon. "You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds." "Thou with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest." "Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him."





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"Fawn" Quotes from Famous Books



... stretched like a silver carpet in front of her and like a silver carpet with the black ribbon woven across it by the mare's feet behind; to the east and west the sandy waste seemed to undulate in great fawn and amethyst and grey-blue waves, so tremendous was the beast's pace; the horizon looked as though draped in curtains gossamer-light and opalescent; the heavens stretched, silvery and cold, as merciless as a woman who has ceased ...
— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest
... down to the landing below to reconnoitre. There was, of course, gas on the staircase, and as they hung over the iron railing they saw mounting towards them a young girl. She wore a light fawn-coloured dress and a hat covered with Parma violets. Hearing voices above her, she threw her head back, and stopped a moment. Louie's eye was caught by her hand and its tiny wrist as it lay on the balustrade, and by the ...
— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... which these young girls stood opened from a chamber richly tapestried in fawn-colored Flanders leather, stamped with golden foliage. The beams, which cut the ceiling in parallel lines, diverted the eye with a thousand eccentric painted and gilded carvings. Splendid enamels gleamed here and there on carved chests; a boar's head in faience crowned ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo
... performing the sword exercise! How coyly does she dispose her garments and floating drapery to hide the too-maddening symmetry of her limbs! Gods! She is transformed all at once into an Amazon—the fawn-like timidity of her first demeanour is gone. Bold and beautiful flushes her cheek with animated crimson—her full voluptuous lip is more compressed and firm—the deep passion of the huntress flashing in her lustrous eyes! ...
— The Bon Gaultier Ballads • William Edmonstoune Aytoun
... Chip!" cried Tom, and the decoy-man's little sharp-looking dog came bounding to them, to leap up, and fawn and whine, full of delight at ...
— Dick o' the Fens - A Tale of the Great East Swamp • George Manville Fenn


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