Fawn - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |fɔːn|  American pronunciation of the word fawn
Brit.  |fɔːn|  British pronunciation of the word fawn

noun

- a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color (syn: dun)
- a young deer

verb

- show submission or fear (syn: cower, crawl, creep, cringe, grovel)
- try to gain favor by cringing or flattering (syn: bootlick, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle)
- have fawns
deer fawn

Extra examples

...a student who could not wait to fawn over the new teacher...

The fawn of a seal at the first is white.

The forest was closed for hunting because the beasts were supposed to be fawning.

A tame beast fawns to be fed.

He fawns on his rich uncle, hoping to gain some of his money.

It's no good fawning on the teacher, you have to earn good marks.

I refused to fawn over her or flatter her.

Spot was fawning on him as if he understood every word

It was quite an understood thing in the family that Lord Fawn must marry money.

A young deer is a fawn.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: fawn
he/she/it: fawns
present participle: fawning
past tense: fawned
past participle: fawned
noun
singular: fawn
plural: fawns
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