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Synonyms for fawners
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : fawn |
Phonetic Transcription : fɔn |
Top 10 synonyms for fawners Other synonyms for the word fawners
- apple polisher
- apple-polisher
- assenter
- brownnose
- brownnoser
- cajoler
- camp follower
- doter
- fawner
- flatterer
- flunkey
- flunky
- follower
- groupie
- groveler
- handshaker
- hanger-on
- kiss-ass
- kiss-up
- kowtower
- lackey
- lickspittle
- minion
- parasite
- pawn
- politician
- puffer
- puppet
- sheep
- slave
- stooge
- subordinate
- sweet talker
- sycophant
- teacher's pet
- toady
- truckler
- underling
- yes man
- yes woman
- yes-man
- yes-man/woman
- yes-person
Définition of fawners
Origin :- "young deer," mid-14c., from Anglo-French (late 13c.), Old French faon, feon "young animal" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *fetonem (nominative *feto), from Latin fetus "an offspring" (see fetus). Still used of the young of any animal in King James I's private translation of the Psalms, but mainly of deer from 15c. Color use is 1881.
- As in minion : noun sycophant
- As in sycophant : noun person who caters to another
- As in toady : noun sycophant
- As in yes-person : noun sycophant
- As in apple polisher : noun yes person
- As in brownnoser : noun sycophant, toady
- As in yes man : noun someone following orders without question
- As in adulator : noun sycophant
- As in apple-polisher : noun sycophant
- As in flatterer : noun complimenter
- The fawners and the cringers think the Zone is all askew, but Uncle never did have use for that that was not true.
- Extract from : « Droll Stories of Isthmian Life » by Evelyn Saxton
- Fawners and flatterers made a mighty triumph of it, and set up a cry which will occasionally find an echo to this day.
- Extract from : « A Child's History of England » by Charles Dickens
- He despised time-servers, trimmers, fawners and all sorts and kinds of pretenders.
- Extract from : « The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) » by Robert G. Ingersoll
Antonyms for fawners
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