Doe vs Fawn - What's the difference?
doe | fawn |
A female deer; also used of similar animals such as reindeer, antelope, goat.
A female fallow deer.
A female rabbit.
A female hare.
A female squirrel.
A female kangaroo
* 1620 Mayflower Compact
A young deer.
A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
(obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.
* Holland
Of the fawn colour.
To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on'' or ''upon ).
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* Macaulay
*
, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 (of a dog) To wag its tail, to show devotion.
As nouns the difference between doe and fawn
is that doe is a female deer; also used of similar animals such as reindeer, antelope, goat while fawn is a young deer.As verbs the difference between doe and fawn
is that doe is an archaic spelling of lang=en while fawn is to give birth to a fawn.As an initialism DOE
is Department of EnergyAs a proper noun Doe
is a surname of English origin.As an adjective fawn is
of the fawn colour.doe
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (female deer) hind (female red deer) * (female kangaroo) blue flyer (female red kangaroo)Verb
(head)- ...a voyage to plant ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in ye presence of God...
Anagrams
* ----fawn
English
(wikipedia fawn)Etymology 1
From (etyl) faon.Noun
(en noun)- [The tigress] after her fawns .
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* fawn lilyEtymology 2
From (etyl) fawnen, from (etyl) fahnian, fagnian, . See also fain.Verb
(en verb)- You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds.
- Thou with trembling fear, / Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest.
- courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him
citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}