Fawn vs Faw - What's the difference?
fawn | faw |
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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; chiefly used to represent the accent of slaves in the United States .
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As a noun 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 or fawn can be to exhibit affection or attempt to please.As a preposition faw is
; chiefly used to represent the accent of slaves in the united states .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.}}
Synonyms
* (seek favour by flattery) grovel, wheedleDerived terms
* fawn overSee also
*References
faw
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)Gutenberg eBook #10234,
- “Now, Colossus, what air you a-beckonin? at me faw ?”