Fawney

Fawney stealing round the rooms of the Club, with glassy, meaningless eyes, and an endless greasy simper — he fawns on everybody he meets, and shakes hands with you, and blesses you, and betrays the most tender and astonishing interest in your welfare.

The Book of Snobs 2006

I see, for instance, old Fawney stealing round the rooms of the Club, with glassy, meaningless eyes, and an endless greasy simper -- he fawns on everybody he meets, and shakes hands with you, and blesses you, and betrays the most tender and astonishing interest in your welfare.

The Book of Snobs William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Fawney that old bloke there charging a tanner apiece to us for chaffin 'a bit of a barrel. "

Colonel Starbottle's Client Bret Harte 1869