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1. Attempting to win favour from influential people by flattery
   - bootlicking, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish
    
2. Attempting to win favour by flattery
   - bootlicking, sycophantic, toadyish

1. Show submission or fear
   - crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel
    
2. Try to gain favour by cringing or flattering
   "He is always fawning to his boss";
   - toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up, smoodge [Austral]
    
3. Have fawns
   "deer fawn"

See also: insincere, servile

Type of: bear, bend, birth, blandish, deliver, flatter, flex, give birth, have

Encyclopedia: Fawning