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Definition of fawn:
- A fawn color.
- A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.
- A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.
- Of the color of a fawn; fawn- colored.
- The young of an animal; a whelp.
- To bring forth a fawn.
- To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; - often followed by on or upon.
Synonyms:
take in, brood, bullock, absorb, crouch, shrink, bluish, scrape, sop up, recoil, suck, quail, crawl, dun, flinch, truckle, slaver, azure, draw, black, cotton, cower, mouse, curry favor, baby, creep, huddle, kneel, calf, bow, amethyst, genuflect, funk, squinch, soak up, bootlick, blue, baby-blue, cringe, toady, cub, greyish brown, brownnose, curry favor, alabaster, cozy up, sidle up, sneak, court, foal, wince, colt, grovel, apple-polish, over, grayish brown, amber, suck up, take up, play up, avocado, chick, cotton up, shine up, imbibe, beige, stoop, dance attendance, kotow, filly, kowtow, fuss, pussyfoot.
- brown (part of speech: adjective)
- flatter (part of speech: verb)
Usage examples:
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But all the time his soul lay hot within him, at having so to humble himself before Flint; at being thus obliged to eat crow, and fawn and feign and creep.
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The selection was a good one; for the woman, who was young, was known in the tribe as the Fawn for her gentle disposition.
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" There was no one to tell anything,- not even a fawn, nor the brown doe.