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fawned | faned |

As a verb fawned

is (fawn).

As a noun faned is

(dated|fandom slang) the editor of a fandom publication, most commonly a fanzine.

fawned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fawn)

    • 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

    See also

    *

    References

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    faned

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated, fandom slang) The editor of a fandom publication, most commonly a fanzine.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1946 , date = April , first = Wilson "Bob" , last = Tucker , authorlink = Wilson Tucker , title = , magazine = Bloomington News-letter , page = 1 , passage = Sample fanzine advertisement attached; same obtainable free from B.T. for any fan-ed wishing to run them. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1961 , date = August , first = Walter Alexander , last = Willis , authorlink = Walt Willis , title = Black Mail , magazine = Willis Papers , url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/Willis_Papers/Black_Mail.html , passage = This British peculiarity, this psychopathic abhorrence for open spaces in fanzines, has been remarked on by many people but until this moment nobody has explained the real reason for it. It is not meanness, nor the high cost of paper, nor any obvious cause like that. It is simply that every British faned' walks in the shadow of fear, knowing himself to be a hunted man, a law-breaker, an enemy of society. He is the victim of a guilt complex that compels him to shun the free wide spaces beloved of US ' faneds and to crowd his materiel into a confined space as if huddling together for protection. }}
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 1995 , monthday = September 11 , author = Lindsay Crawford , email = , title = Re: All Knowledge Is Cont , id = 9509101936014156@emerald.com , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/_zvlBqL5IJw/09O0IID9j9EJ }}
    A lot of crap passes through here that no decent faned would pub, while some of the traffic is meant to be playful or argumentive in a high volume, rapid turnover way, what you might call ephemeral, entertainment today, written over tomorrow.

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