Fawn vs Jawn - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between fawn and jawn

is that fawn is a young deer while jawn is (slang|chiefly philadelphia) something; any object, place or thing.

As verbs the difference between fawn and jawn

is that fawn is to give birth to a fawn or fawn can be to exhibit affection or attempt to please while jawn is .

As an adjective fawn

is of the fawn colour.

fawn

English

(wikipedia fawn)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) faon.

Noun

(en noun)

A young deer.

A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.

(obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.

* Holland

[The tigress] after her fawns .

Adjective

(-)

Of the fawn colour.

Derived terms

* fawn lily

Verb

(en verb)

To give birth to a fawn.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) fawnen, from (etyl) fahnian, fagnian, . See also fain.

Verb

(en verb)

To exhibit affection or attempt to please.

To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on'' or ''upon ).

* Shakespeare

You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds.

* Milton

Thou with trembling fear, / Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest.

* Macaulay

courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him

, title=The Mirror and the Lamp , chapter=2 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.}}

(of a dog) To wag its tail, to show devotion.

Synonyms

* (seek favour by flattery) grovel, wheedle

Derived terms

* fawn over

References

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jawn

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(en verb)

(Marston)

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

(slang, chiefly Philadelphia) Something; any object, place or thing.

:Check out this jawn .

*2001 , Steve Jackson, "Takin it back B/W BEEF", rec.music.hip-hop [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.hip-hop/msg/c415feed930748c0]:

*:"Then I started thinking of the Scenario remix and was like yo, that jawn was just as good."

*2007 September 23, Jessica Pressler, "The Bar Car is Rocking" in New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/fashion/23boite.html?ref=fashion]:

*:"Just back from a tour in Australia, he was sitting at a table in the dining car with a group of friends that included members of the hip-hop groups Spank Rock and Plastic Little. 'This,' he said, 'is the jawn .'"

*2013 August 20, MK Asante, Buck: A Memoir (Spiegel & Grau) [http://genius.com/Mk-asante-buck-a-memoir-chap-1-annotated]:

*:"Jawn' can mean anything—person, place, or thing. Sometimes if we’re telling a story and don’t want people to know what we’re talking about, we’ll plug '''jawn''' in for everything. The other day I was at the '''jawn''' around the corner with the young '''jawn''' from down the street. We get to the '''jawn''', right, and the ngh at the door is all on his '''jawn''', not knowing I had that '''jawn''' on me. Man, it was about to be on in that ' jawn ."

(slang) A woman.

:Yo, you see that jawn , she bad as shit.

*1999 July 16, “da One and Only Jazzman”, “Re: RapCity: UnderHouston”, rec.music.hip-hop, Usenet ,^{[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.hip-hop/msg/edf3ed4e04932a25]}

*:MY boi in NY, when he first came to Philly, used to tell me the philly jawns were easy.

*2005 , Krystle J. Nutter, Turned Out ,^{[http://books.google.com/books?id=5ehZ6HwispcC]} iUniverse, ISBN 0-595-36207-9, page 1,

I had a few chicks that I messed around with but this one main jawn stuck out in particular.

*2006 , G. D. McCrary, Guerrillas in the Midst ,^{[http://books.google.com/books?id=QX5h8KeTbXMC]} Papyrus & Pen Publishing, ISBN 0977068714, page 39,

*:“Who? The jawn sittin’ in the truck wit’ choo? I think I know her.”

*2009 , Asher Roth, I Love College ,

*:“When it comes to condoms, put two on, and tomorrow night, find a new jawn .”