Fawn vs Fowl - What's the difference?
fawn | fowl |
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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, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 (of a dog) To wag its tail, to show devotion.
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(archaic) A bird.
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A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans.
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As nouns the difference between fawn and fowl
is that fawn is a young deer while fowl is a bird.As verbs the difference between fawn and fowl
is that fawn is to give birth to a fawn while fowl is to hunt fowl.As an adjective fawn
is of the fawn colour.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
fowl
English
Noun
(wikipedia fowl) (en-noun)- And now I take vpon me the aduentures of holy thynges / & now I see and vnderstande that myn old synne hyndereth me and shameth me / so that I had no power to stere nor speke whan the holy blood appiered afore me / So thus he sorowed til hit was day / & herd the fowles synge / thenne somwhat he was comforted
