Definition of Fawn

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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.

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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

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
Raymond Chandler

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

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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