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Definition of Fawn

Fawn A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck. The young of an animal; a whelp. A fawn color. Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored. To bring forth a fawn. To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon. A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. Related Definitions: An, Animal, As, Bow, Bring, Buck, By, Color, Court, Cringe, Cringing, Deer, Doe, Dog, Favor, Fawn, Fawn-Colored, First, Flatter, Flattery, Followed, Forth, Frisking, Low, Mean, Meanly, Of, Often, On, Or, See, Servile, Sycophancy, The, To, Upon, Whelp, Year, Young

Fawn Quotations I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous. Walt Disney I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals. Diogenes She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. Raymond Chandler Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. George William Russell

Fawn Translations fawn in Spanish is cervato fawn in Swedish is gulbrun, krypa, lisma

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