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Noun: fawn  fon
  1. A colour or pigment varying around a light grey-brown colour
    - dun, greyish brown [Brit, Cdn], grayish brown [US]
     
  2. A young deer
Verb: fawn  fon
  1. Show submission or fear
    - crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel
     
  2. Try to gain favour by cringing or flattering
    - toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up
     
  3. Have fawns
    "deer fawn"

Sounds like: faun

Derived forms: fawning, fawned, fawns

See also: fawner

Type of: bear, bend, birth, blandish, cervid, deer, deliver, flatter, flex, give birth, have, light brown, young mammal

Encyclopedia: Fawn