Fawning vs Crawling - What's the difference?
fawning | crawling | Related terms |
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, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 servile flattery
* (Hannah More)
The motion of something that crawls.
* Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
Fawning is a related term of crawling.
As verbs the difference between fawning and crawling
is that fawning is while crawling is .As nouns the difference between fawning and crawling
is that fawning is servile flattery while crawling is the motion of something that crawls.fawning
English
Verb
(head)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.}}
Noun
(en noun)- Xantippus found his ruin ere it reached him, / Lurking behind your honours and rewards; / Found it in your feigned courtesies and fawnings .
crawling
English
(wikipedia crawling)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Miss Brass devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.
