Synonyms for fawner
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : fawn |
| Phonetic Transcription : fɔn |
Top 10 synonyms for fawner Other synonyms for the word fawner
- apple polisher
- apple-polisher
- assenter
- auburn
- beige
- biscuit
- bister
- booster
- bootlicker
- brick
- bronze
- brownnose
- brownnoser
- buff
- burnt sienna
- café au lait
- cajoler
- camp follower
- charmer
- chestnut
- chocolate
- cinnamon
- cocoa
- coffee
- copper
- dependent
- doormat
- doter
- drab
- dust
- ecru
- fan
- fawn
- fawner
- flatterer
- flunkey
- flunky
- follower
- ginger
- groupie
- groveler
- handshaker
- hanger-on
- hazel
- henna
- khaki
- kiss-ass
- kiss-up
- kowtower
- lackey
- lickspittle
- mahogany
- minion
- mushroom
- neutral
- nut
- oatmeal
- ochre
- parasite
- pawn
- politician
- puce
- puffer
- puppet
- russet
- rust
- sand
- sepia
- sheep
- slave
- snuff-colored
- sorrel
- stooge
- subordinate
- sweet talker
- sycophant
- tan
- tawny
- teacher's pet
- terra-cotta
- toady
- toast
- truckler
- umber
- underling
- yes man
- yes woman
- yes-man
- yes-man/woman
- yes-person
Définition of fawner
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 brown : adj dark, burnished color
- As in minion : noun sycophant
- As in sycophant : noun person who caters to another
- As in toady : noun sycophant
- As in beige : noun light brown color
- 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
Antonyms for fawner
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