fawn

[US]/fɔːn/
[UK]/fɔn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vi. to flatter
n. a light yellowish-brown color; a young deer; a young animal
adj. of a light yellowish-brown color
vt. to give birth to (a young deer or animal)

Phrases & Collocations

a fawn deer

a fawn-colored coat

fawn on

Example Sentences

fawning on their rich uncle

congressmen fawn over the President.

fawned on her superior;

the dogs started fawning on me.

abaxial surface with mammillate epidermis, thinly persistently fawn-farinose;

The fawns decimated my sister's rose bushes.

You must guard against those who fawn upon you and bow obsequiously before you!

Now, small De Hua already became Dadehua, there also is the girlfriend of an intimate in the United States, birdcall fawn on.

As to say not clever, I think ought to be to point to without Babbitt sex, not fawn on common, and be not those who mean mind is fatheaded.

These mail-wagons were two-wheeled cabriolets, upholstered inside with fawn-colored leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, the other for the traveller.

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