Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To exhibit affection or attempt to please, as a dog does by wagging its tail, whining, or cringing.
- intransitive verb To seek favor or attention by flattery and obsequious behavior.
- noun A young deer, especially one less than a year old.
- noun A grayish yellow-brown to moderate reddish brown.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year.
- noun The young of some other animal.
- To bring forth a fawn.
- To show fondness or desire in the manner of a dog or other animal; manifest pleasure or gratitude, or court notice or favor, by demonstrative actions, especially by crouching, licking the hand, or the like; act caressingly and submissively: absolutely or with on or upon.
- To flatter meanly; use blandishments; act servilely; cringe and bow to gain favor: used absolutely or with on or upon.
- To show fondness toward in the manner of a dog; act servilely toward; cringe to.
- noun A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery.
- noun The color of the fawn; a light yellowish brown.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To bring forth a fawn.
- noun (Zoöl.) A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See
buck . - noun obsolete The young of an animal; a whelp.
- noun A fawn color.
- intransitive verb To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by
on orupon . - adjective Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.
- noun A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
young deer . - noun A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
- adjective Of the fawn colour.
- verb intransitive To
exhibit affection orattempt toplease . - verb intransitive To seek
favour byflattery andobsequious behaviour . - verb intransitive, of a dog To
wag itstail , to showdevotion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a young deer
- verb try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
- verb have fawns
- verb show submission or fear
- noun a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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From saving a fawn from a yote to a vortex that picks hay up and spins it 100 feet in the air.
warming-gate 2009
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From saving a fawn from a yote to a vortex that picks hay up and spins it 100 feet in the air.
warming-gate 2009
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In any case, say we have a 35 lb cat. a 10-20-30lb fawn is a hell of a meal.
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In any case, say we have a 35 lb cat. a 10-20-30lb fawn is a hell of a meal.
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Just visualizing those boys laughing and kicking a fawn is very sad.
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From saving a fawn from a yote to a vortex that picks hay up and spins it 100 feet in the air.
warming-gate 2009
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Just visualizing those boys laughing and kicking a fawn is very sad.
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So its just like saying a fawn is 3 1/2 when he said the deer is 6 1/2.
Special Report: The "Field & Stream Buck" Falls Dave Hurteau 2008
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She was dressed in fawn-coloured satin, with large pearls.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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Nor would anyone call a fawn acquiring antlers once it matured evolution.
she commented on the word fawn
'So they walked on together though the wood, Alice with her arms clasped lovingly round the soft neck of the Fawn, till they came out into another open field, and here the Fawn gave a sudden bound into the air, and shook itself free from Alice's arms. "I'm a Fawn!" it cried out in a voice of delight, "and, dear me! you're a human child!" A sudden look of alarm came into its beautiful brown eyes, and in another moment it had darted away at full speed.'
July 18, 2008
kringlan commented on the word fawn
Could it also be a warm beige?
August 1, 2008
yarb commented on the word fawn
Yes it could! See Wordnet's 7th and 8th definitions.
August 1, 2008