[ US /ˈfɔn/ ]
[ UK /fˈɔːn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a young deer
  2. a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
    she wore dun
VERB
  1. show submission or fear
  2. have fawns
    deer fawn
  3. try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
    He is always kowtowing to his boss
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How To Use fawn In A Sentence

  • She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow. Incubus
  • While poor excommunicated Miss Tox, who, if she were a fawner and toad – eater, was at least an honest and a constant one, and had ever borne a faithful friendship towards her impeacher and had been truly absorbed and swallowed up in devotion to the magnificence of Mr Dombey and Son
  • The aristocracy are made to look like buffoons; the women swoon, the maids are oversexed, and the artist himself - the center of everyone's fawning attention - plays the dandy.
  • The Roman satirists savagely expose the fawning homage heaped upon the childless rich.
  • I recall her fawning over him some years ago when he did some extra-special marriage+ thingy. "Mike Huckabee has leaped ahead..."
  • Certainly, the fawning coverage has got to stop. Times, Sunday Times
  • People are fawning over you because you are their man of the moment.
  • But here he is, threatening to go on and on, surrounded by fawning Labour ministers, backbenchers and constituency delegates.
  • Remember, he is more accustomed to interviews with fawning, gushy, fans, rather than with more hard-nosed journalists.
  • Neither option really appealed to Darcy, but anything had to be better than spending the day with Caroline fawning over him.
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