fawn

fawn
    n 1: a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color;
         "she wore dun" [syn: {dun}, {greyish brown}, {grayish
         brown}, {fawn}]
    2: a young deer
    v 1: show submission or fear [syn: {fawn}, {crawl}, {creep},
         {cringe}, {cower}, {grovel}]
    2: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always
       kowtowing to his boss" [syn: {fawn}, {toady}, {truckle},
       {bootlick}, {kowtow}, {kotow}, {suck up}]
    3: have fawns; "deer fawn"
    

Fawn \Fawn\, n. [OF. faon the young one of any beast, a fawn, F.
   faon a fawn, for fedon, fr. L. fetus. See {Fetus}.]
   1. (Zool.) A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See
      {Buck}.
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   2. The young of an animal; a whelp. [Obs.]
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            [The tigress] . . . followeth . . . after her fawns.
                                                  --Holland.
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   3. A fawn color.
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Fawn \Fawn\, a.
   Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.
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Fawn \Fawn\, v. i. [Cf. F. faonner.]
   To bring forth a fawn.
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Fawn \Fawn\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fawned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Fawning}.] [OE. fawnen, fainen, fagnien, to rejoice,
   welcome, flatter, AS. f[ae]gnian to rejoice; akin to Icel.
   fagna to rejoice, welcome. See {Fain}.]
   To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to
   flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon.
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         You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like
         hounds.                                  --Shak.
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         Thou with trembling fear,
         Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest.     --Milton.
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         Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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Fawn \Fawn\, n.
   A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. --Shak.
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166 Moby Thesaurus words for "fawn":
      Cape elk, Virginia deer, abase, antelope, apple-polish,
      be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, beige, bend the knee,
      birdling, blandish, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, brown, brownish,
      brownish-yellow, brunet, buck, butter up, cajole, calf, calve,
      camel, camelopard, caribou, cast, cater to, catling, cave, chick,
      chickling, chicky, chocolate, cinnamon, coax, cocoa, cocoa-brown,
      coffee, coffee-brown, colt, cotton, court, cower, crawl, creep,
      cringe, crouch, cub, curry favor, dance, debase, deer, deerlet,
      defer, demean, doe, dogie, drab, dromedary, drop, duckling, dun,
      dun-brown, dun-drab, ecru, eland, elk, fallow deer, farrow,
      fawn-colored, flatter, fledgling, foal, fryer, fuscous, gazelle,
      giraffe, give birth, gnu, gosling, grege, grovel, hart, hartebeest,
      have, have a baby, have young, hazel, hind, invite, kaama, khaki,
      kid, kit, kitten, kneel, kowtow, labor, lamb, lambkin,
      lick the dust, lickspittle, lie in, litter, lurid, make up to,
      moose, mule deer, musk deer, nest, nestling, nut-brown, okapi,
      olive-brown, olive-drab, pander to, piglet, pigling, polliwog,
      pullet, pup, puppy, red deer, reindeer, roe, roe deer, roebuck,
      seal, seal-brown, sepia, shoat, slaver, snuff-colored, sorrel,
      springbok, stag, stoop, submit, suck up to, tadpole, tan, taupe,
      tawny, throw, toadeat, toady, toast, toast-brown, travail, truckle,
      umber, umber-colored, walnut, walnut-brown, weaner, wheedle, whelp,
      wildebeest, woo, yean, yeanling, yellowish-brown, yield