Faun vs Fawn - What's the difference?
faun | fawn |
(Roman mythology) A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.
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
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, chapter=2 (of a dog) To wag its tail, to show devotion.
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As nouns the difference between faun and fawn
is that faun is a woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry while fawn is a young deer.As an adjective fawn is
of the fawn colour.As a verb fawn is
to give birth to a fawn.faun
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Alternative forms
* faune (rare or archaic)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* satyrSee also
* ("faun" on Wikipedia)fawn
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(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
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