Synonyms for fawn
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : fawn |
| Phonetic Transcription : fɔn |
Top 10 synonyms for fawn Other synonyms for the word fawn
- apple-polish
- baby buck
- baby doe
- be at beck and call
- be obsequious
- be servile
- brownnose
- buddy up
- butter up
- cater to
- cave in to
- creep
- cringe
- curry favor
- debase
- defer
- fall all over
- fall on one's knees
- flatter
- honey up
- invite
- jolly
- kneel
- kowtow
- lay it on
- lick boots
- make up to
- massage
- oil
- pander
- pay court
- play up to
- scrape
- slaver
- snow
- stoop
- stroke
- submit
- toady
- truckle
- woo
- yearling
- yield
Définition of fawn
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.
- noun baby deer
- verb ingratiate oneself to; serve
- You pet them and fawn on them, and naturally they get conceited.
- Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
- I have a pet cat and a chicken, and papa says he will catch me a fawn.
- Extract from : « Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880 » by Various
- "They have told her to do it," whispered Fawn, and stood firm.
- Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael
- Fawn ran into the house, brought her jewels, and handed them to her father.
- Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael
- The huntsman having seized the fawn, will hand it to the keeper.
- Extract from : « The Sportsman » by Xenophon
- He never had at college even; he was as ready to fawn the next day.
- Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
- As they could not agree as to who should own the body of the Fawn, they fell to blows.
- Extract from : « Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) » by Various
- The ugly dog began to fawn upon her, but he snarled at everybody else.
- Extract from : « Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) » by Various
- He could have had half the town at his rooms to fawn upon him if he had cared for that sort of thing.
- Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
- It is easier to them to fawn than to work, to flatter the great than to follow their example.
- Extract from : « The Rambles of a Rat » by A. L. O. E.
Antonyms for fawn
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