 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fawn
noun
1: a color varying around light grayish brown; "she wore a dun
raincoat" [syn: {dun}, {grayish brown}, {greyish brown}]
2: young deer
verb
1: show submission or fear [syn: {crawl}, {creep}, {cringe}, {cower},
{grovel}]
2: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always
kowtowing to his boss" [syn: {toady}, {truckle}, {bootlick},
{kowtow}, {kotow}, {suck up}]
3: have fawns; "deer fawn"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fawn \Fawn\, noun [OF. faon the young one of any beast, a fawn, F.
faon a fawn, for fedon, fr. L. fetus. See {Fetus}.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
--Holland.
3. A fawn color.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fawn \Fawn\, adjective
Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fawn \Fawn\, verb (used without an object) [Cf. F. faonner.]
To bring forth a fawn.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fawn \Fawn\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Fawned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fawning}.] [OE. fawnen, fainen, fagnien, to rejoice,
welcome, flatter, AS. f[ae]gnian to rejoice; akin to Icel.
fagna to rejoice, welcome. See {Fain}.]
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. --Shak.
Thou with trembling fear,
Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest. --Milton.
Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him.
--Macaulay.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fawn \Fawn\, noun
A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
166 Moby Thesaurus words for "fawn":
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
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