'Fawn' definitions:
Definition of 'fawn'
(from WordNet)
noun
A color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; "she wore dun" [syn: dun, greyish brown, grayish brown, fawn]
noun
A young deer
verb
verb
Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss" [syn: fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up]
verb
Have fawns; "deer fawn"
Definition of 'Fawn'
From: GCIDE
- Fawn \Fawn\, n. A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fawn'
From: GCIDE
- Fawn \Fawn\, n. [OF. faon the young one of any beast, a fawn, F. faon a fawn, for fedon, fr. L. fetus. See Fetus.]
- 1. (Zool.) A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The young of an animal; a whelp. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- [The tigress] . . . followeth . . . after her fawns. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A fawn color. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fawn'
From: GCIDE
- Fawn \Fawn\, a. Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fawn'
From: GCIDE
- Fawn \Fawn\, v. i. [Cf. F. faonner.] To bring forth a fawn. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fawn'
From: GCIDE
- Fawn \Fawn\, v. i. [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. [1913 Webster]
- You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Thou with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fawn'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Cape elk,
- 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,
- Virginia deer,
- walnut,
- walnut-brown,
- weaner,
- wheedle,
- whelp,
- wildebeest,
- woo,
- yean,
- yeanling,
- yellowish-brown,
- yield