fawn

Meaning

Noun

1. A young deer.
2. A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
3. (obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.

Adj

Of the fawn colour.

Verb

To give birth to a fawn.

Verb

1. To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
2. To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon).
3. To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.

Synonyms

flatter

cringe

grovel

adulate

kowtow

suck up

toady

truckle

bootlick

creep

deer

🦌

wheedle

fawn-colour

cajole

woo

blandish

dun

court

cower

crawl

coax

antelope

kotow

grayish brown

greyish brown

light brown

snitch

soft soap

soft-soap

support

tan

fawn-coloured

fawn on

gaselle

pay court to

cozy up

shine up

pattern of white spots

curry favour

stroke

ingratiate oneself

flatter obsequiously

court favor by flattery

court favor

court favour

young deer

blab

black

blarney

brown-nose

butter up

calve

compliment

curry

🍛

curry favor

dapples

dark

darken

elk

genuflect

green

hart

ingratiate

joist

lackey

lift up

moose

🫎

nark

play up

praise

raise up

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɔːn/

Etymology

From Middle English fawne, fowne, foun, from Old French faon, foon, feon, from Vulgar Latin *fētōnem, from Latin fētus (“offspring, young”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle, nurse”). Displaced native Old English hindċealf (literally “deer calf”). Doublet of fetus.