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- noun Plural form of
fawner .
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Examples
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Timon afterwards offers some-more lavish presents to fawners as good as flatterers; he seems mechanical, a partial of observed, simply a repeated benefaction giver.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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Timon afterwards offers some-more lavish presents to fawners as good as flatterers; he seems mechanical, a partial of observed, simply a repeated benefaction giver.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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I have some respect for some of them, particularly those few who came to office with some accomplishment outside gvt, and for the very few I've met who didn't act like Olympian demigods towing an entourage of professional fawners.
The F-Team 2008
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And Sarah Palin demonstrated just how vain someone can be by fawning over her fawners.
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Then I took him the rounds, of clubs, and the Horse Guards, and the Park, presented him to anyone of consequence whom I felt it might be useful to toady - and, by George, I had no shortage of friends and fawners when the word got about who he was.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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And Sarah Palin demonstrated just how vain someone can be by fawning over her fawners.
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He has no standing what so ever except with the foam-at-the-mouth wingnuts and of course his fawners in the MSM (Gregory, Stephanopolous, Schieffer, Scarborough, Dobbs, etc.)
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And Sarah Palin demonstrated just how vain someone can be by fawning over her fawners.
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He was bitchin' about how all the Liberal fawners are making things harder for Obama.
Axelrod: "It’s surreal, so much of this is... It’s kind of hard to absorb and get your hands around all we’re trying to do." Ann Althouse 2009
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Now most of them are outright fawners … hoping that if they say and do the right things the right way — and have the correct hair – that they may get a WH job someday.
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