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