Fawn

Definition: Fawn

Fawn

Noun

1. A color varying around light grayish brown; "she wore a dun raincoat".

2. Young deer.

Verb

1. Show submission or fear.

2. Tray to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss".

3. Have fawns, of deer.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Fawn" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a fawn".

Date "fawn" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references)

Note: Fawn \Fawn\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Fawned; Fawning.]. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Fawn

Flattery

Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust.

Servility

Sneak, crawl, crouch, cower, sponge, truckle to, grovel, fawn, lick the feet of, kiss the hem of one's garment, kiss one's ass, suck up.

Crosswords: Fawn

The Eagle and the Fawn (1919)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Fawn in the Grass (reference)

• Call Me Graywolf (3 Volume Set (The Story of Skipping Fawn , So3) (reference)

• Fawn at Woodland Way (Smithsonian's Backyard) (reference)

• Frightened Fawn (Animal Emergency, No 8) (reference)

• River of Joy (3 Volume Set (The Story of Skipping Fawn , Vol 2) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Fortunate Fawn (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Fawn (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Fawn whitetail deer. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Deer, fawn, with small spots lying on the ground. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

Oregon Fawn Lily (Erythronium oregonum) along East Evan's Creek. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

Henderson's Fawn Lily (Erythronium hendersonii) around Upper Table Rock. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

Close up of Henderson's Fawn Lily (Erythronium hendersonii) around Upper Table Rock. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

Sigurd T. Olson and Black-tailed Fawn. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

White Fawn. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Expressions using "fawn": fawn colored ♦ fawn coloured ♦ fawn foot ♦ Fawn Grove ♦ fawn lily ♦ fawn on ♦ fawn upon ♦ in fawn ♦ Rising Fawn. Additional references.

Beginning with "fawn": fawn-and-white, Fawn-colored, fawn-coloured, fawn-froth.

Ending with "fawn": frightened-fawn, pale-fawn.

Albanian

tund bishtin, pjell (bring forth, calve, farrow, foal, gender, give birth, increase, litter, pig, procreate, produce, whelp), lëpihem, këlysh dreri, i verdhemë (fallow, fawn coloured, Primrose). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ولد الغزال, ‏تملق (adulate, blandish, blarney, butter, butter up, cajole, cajolery, coax, coaxing, compliment, con, court, cringe, curry favor with, curry favour with, flatter, flattery, incense, ingratiate oneself, insinuation, kowtow, lick his boots, make, mawkish, oiliness, palaver, servilism, soap, soft soap, subservience, suck up to, sweet talk, taffy, toady, wheedle), ‏تودد (court, courtship, endearment, woo), ‏تزلف (adulate, adulation, toady), ‏الخشف ولد الظبي, ‏الشادن إبن الظبى (brocket). (various references)

Bulgarian 

умилквам се, светлобежов (fawn colored, fawn coloured), раждам (be confined, bear, beget, breed, bring forth, drop, give, give birth, have, labor, labour, lie in wait, mother, procreate, produce, spawn, throw, whelp), млад елен, любезнича, подмазвам се (crouch, curry favor, curry favour, ingratiate smb., slaver, smarm), подлизурствувам (cringe, suck up, toady, truckle). (various references)

Chinese 

麛 (young of animals), 麑 , 奉承 (flatter). (various references)

Czech

plavý (fair, fawn coloured, straw-colored), kolouch, žlutohnìdý (buff, fulvous, tawny, umber). (various references)

Danish

lam (lamb), kalv (calf). (various references)

Dutch

hertekalf (calf, faon, young stag). (various references)

Esperanto

kapreolido, cervido. (various references)

Finnish

keltaisen ruskea. (various references)

French

faon (faon). (various references)

German

hirschkalb (deer calf). (various references)

Greek 

καστανοκίτρινοσ, καλοπιάνω (cajole, coax, lick his boots, wheedle), κολακεύω (adulate, blarney, bootlick, butter up, cajole, cringe, curry, fawn over, flatter, lick his boots, soft soap, suck up), ελάφι (deer), ελαφάκι. (various references)

Hebrew 

להתחנף (carry favour, ingratiate oneself, lick his boots, toady), להתרפס (bow and scrape, grovel, ingratiate oneself, kowtow, toady, truckle), חום בהיר (beige, light bay). (various references)

Hungarian

szarvasborjú. (various references)

Italian

cerbiatto (brocket). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鹿の子 (dapples, pattern of white spots), 子鹿 , べろべろ舐める (be very hungry, chattering, closely, cross, cross out, fast, flat, fraud, no good, prattle, swindle, to lick up with one's tongue). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぺこぺこ (be very hungry), かのこ (dapples, pattern of white spots), こじか. (various references)

Korean 

새끼 사슴. (various references)

Manx

minjeig (bundle, immature deer), jannoo seose rish (befriend, cultivate, cultivate of person), buigh-ghone, brynneraght (blandishment, fawning). (various references)

Pig Latin

awnfay.(various references)

Portuguese

veado jovem (calf, faon, young stag), parir (calve, cast, cub, douche, farrow, foal, give birth, give birth to, kid, kitten, lamb, pup, teem, yean), gamo (deer, fallow deer), bajular (adulate, beslaver, blarney, butter up, flatter, grovel, honey), adular (adulate, blandish, blarney, butter, butter up, cajole, flatter, palaver, soft-soap, wheedle), acariciar (blandish, canoodle, caress, cherish, chuck, dandle, embosom, fondle, hug, neck, nestle, nurse, paddle, pamper, pet, stroke). (various references)

Romanian

face pui, fãta (calve, cast, farrow, foal, litter, pup, whelp, yean), se linguşi (crawl, jolly, palaver, slaver, spaniel, toady), se gudura, pui de cerb, ied (billy goat, goatling, kid, yeanling), da din coadã, cafeniu (Brown, coffee coloured, coffee-colored). (various references)

Russian 

раболепствовать....молодой олень, вилять хвостом, олененок, желтовато-коричневый (fawn colored, fawn coloured), лебезить, ласкаться, подхалимничать (lick smb.'s boots, toady to). (various references)

Scottish

mang (a fawn, year-old deer). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ulagivati se (adulate, curry favor, curry favour, fawn on, flatter, kowtow, pander, rush, toady, toady to), okotiti lane, lane (last year), žutosmeđe boje (fawn colored, fawn coloured). (various references)

Shona

tsvana. (various references)

Spanish

cervato (brocket). (various references)

Swedish

krypa (crawl, creep, cringe, grovel, huddle, kotow, kowtow, trail). (various references)

Thai

ให้กำเนิดลูกกวาง, สีน้ำตาลแกมเหลือง, ลูกกวาง, ประจบ. (various references)

Turkish

yavrulamak (breed, calve, cub, drop, farrow, foal, have kitten, kid, kitten, litter, pig, propagate, pup, spawn, teem, throw, whelp, yean), yaltaklanmak (adulate, beslaver, blandish, blarney, bow and scrape, court, cringe, curry favor with smb., grovel, hustle, lick smb.'s boots, play to, slaver, soap down, toady, truckle, wheedle), kuyruk sallamak (whisk), karaca yavrusu, geyik yavrusu, doğurmak (bear, breed, cause, engender, farrow, foal, freshen, generate, give birth, have a baby, procreate, pup), dalkavukluk etmek (adulate, bootlick, brown-nose, lick smb.'s boots, suck up to, toady), açık kahverengi (biscuit, ecru, fawn colored, fawn coloured). (various references)

Ukrainian

молодий олінь, жовтувато-брунатний (orange-tawny), ластитися (fondle). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nai nhỏ, nâu vàng (fawn-coloured). (various references)

Welsh

ffalsio (cringe), cynffonna (cringe, toady). (various references)

ellos/hellos. (various references)

hinuli, hinulo, hinuloque, hinulus. (various references)

faon. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "fawn": fawned, fawner, fawners, fawnier, fawniest, fawning, fawningly, fawnlike, fawns, fawny. (additional references)

Words ending with "fawn": outfawn. (additional references)

Words containing "fawn": outfawned, outfawning, outfawns. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fawn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afan, cawn, faa'n, faaw, fahn, famn, fann, fanp, fapn, Farn, faw, fawb, fawg, fawin, fawk, fawl, fawna, fawne, fawnh, fawno, fawnt, fawny, faws, fayn, fazn, fewn, fiaw, flawen, Foawr, fown, fowy, frawn, Fwa, fwas, fway, gawn, vawn. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: awn, fan, naw, wan.

-2 letters: an, aw, fa, na.

+1 letter: fawns, fawny.

+2 letters: fawned, fawner.

+3 letters: fanwise, fanwort, fawners, fawnier, fawning, flawing, outfawn, waffing, wafting, waifing.

+4 letters: downfall, dwarfing, facedown, fanworts, fawniest, fawnlike, forewarn, hawfinch, outfawns, snowfall, unlawful, wafering, waffling, warfarin, wharfing, windfall, windflaw.

+5 letters: awfulness, downdraft, downfalls, drawknife, dwarfness, facedowns, fallowing, fancywork, farrowing, fawningly, fellowman, forewarns, forewoman, frontward, guffawing, outfawned, snowfalls, snowflake, upwafting, wafflings, warfarins, wayfaring, windfalls, windflaws, wolfsbane.