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1. A colour or pigment varying around a light grey-brown colour
   "she wore fawn";
   - dun, greyish brown [Brit, Cdn], grayish brown [US]
    
2. A young deer

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

Sounds like: fates, fetes, fêfawn

Derived forms: fawned, fawning, fawns

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

Encyclopedia: Fawn, Missouri