fawns

Meaning of fawns

plural noun
  1. a young deer in its first year.
    a six-month-old roe fawn
  2. a light brown colour.
    soft shades of pale green and fawn
    a fawn dress
verb, 3rd person present
  1. (of a deer) produce young.
    the forest was closed for hunting when the does were fawning

late Middle English: from Old French faon, based on Latin fetus ‘offspring’; compare with fetus.

verb, 3rd person present

(of a person) give a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection, typically in order to gain favour.

Old English fagnian ‘make or be glad’, of Germanic origin; related to fain.

Information about fawns

  • The singular form of fawns is: fawn.
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Hyphenation of fawns

fawns

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • fawns is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

fawns synonyms

Meaning a pale sandy fawn colour:

beige

Meaning a yellowish-beige colour:

buff

Meaning a loose granular substance, typically pale yellowish brown, resulting from the erosion of siliceous and other rocks and forming a major constituent of beaches, river beds, the seabed, and deserts:

sand

Meaning a light, crumbly biscuit, typically made with chopped pecans:

sandy

Meaning meal made from ground oats, used in porridge, oatcakes, or other food:

oatmeal

Meaning made from the grains or flour of wheat:

wheaten

Meaning a small baked unleavened cake, typically crisp, flat, and sweet:

biscuit

Meaning a large, long-necked ungulate mammal of arid country, with long slender legs, broad cushioned feet, and either one or two humps on the back. Camels can survive for long periods without food or drink, :

camel

Meaning (in Russia and Poland) porridge made from cooked buckwheat or similar grain:

kasha

Meaning the light fawn colour of unbleached linen:

ecru

Meaning grey with a tinge of brown:

taupe

Meaning hard solid non-metallic mineral matter of which rock is made, especially as a building material:

stone

Meaning a colour between beige and grey:

greige

Meaning a fungal growth that typically takes the form of a domed cap on a stalk, with gills on the underside of the cap:

mushroom

Meaning a soft, malleable greyish-yellow paste, made from ground chalk and raw linseed oil, that hardens after a few hours and is used for sealing glass in window frames and filling holes in wood:

putty

Meaning an impartial or unbiased state or person:

neutral

Meaning a person having an innate talent for a particular task or activity:

natural

Meaning lavish praise and compliments on (someone), often insincerely and with the aim of furthering one's own interests:

flatter

Meaning express warm approval or admiration of:

praise

Meaning praise highly in speech or writing:

eulogize

Meaning obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree:

obsequious

Meaning having or showing an excessive willingness to serve or please others:

servile

Meaning behaving or done in an obsequious way in order to gain advantage:

sycophantic

Meaning full of praise and compliments:

flattering

Meaning intended to gain approval or favour; sycophantic:

ingratiating

Meaning excessively flattering or ingratiating; oily:

unctuous

Meaning rich in, covered with, or producing oil; oily:

oleaginous

Meaning containing oil:

oily

Meaning servile or submissive:

slavish

Meaning acting obsequiously in order to obtain forgiveness or favour:

grovelling

Meaning (of something bad) experienced or present to the maximum degree:

abject

Meaning move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground:

crawling

Meaning (of a plant) growing along the ground or other surface by means of extending stems or branches:

creeping

Meaning bent in fear or apprehension:

cringing

Meaning throw oneself flat on the ground so as to be lying face downwards, especially in reverence or submission:

prostrate

Meaning behaving in an excessively obedient or servile way as a means of gaining favour:

bootlicking

Meaning ingratiating and wheedling in a way that is regarded as insincere or excessive:

smarmy

Meaning covered by or resembling slime:

slimy

Meaning containing or covered with soap:

soapy

Meaning of, like, or containing soap; soapy:

saponaceous

Words that rhyme with fawns

awns, bawns, dawns, predawns, outfawns, leprechawns, flawns, lawns, treelawns, impawns, pawns, spawns, supawns, suppawns, brawns, prawns, rawns, yawns

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