Quail vs Fawn - What's the difference?
quail | fawn | Related terms |
To waste away; to fade, wither.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 358:
To lose heart or courage; to be daunted, fearful.
* Longfellow
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde):
* 1949 , (George Orwell), Nineteen Eighty-Four , p. 25:
To slacken, give way (of courage, faith etc.).
Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix'', ''Anurophasis'' or ''Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
(obsolete) A prostitute; so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
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
*
, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 (of a dog) To wag its tail, to show devotion.
----
In intransitive terms the difference between quail and fawn
is that quail is to slacken, give way (of courage, faith etc.) while fawn is to seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon).In obsolete terms the difference between quail and fawn
is that quail is a prostitute; so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird while fawn is the young of an animal; a whelp.As a proper noun Quail
is {{surname|from=Scottish Gaelic}.As an adjective fawn is
of the fawn colour.quail
English
(wikipedia quail)Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; perhaps related to (etyl) queilen.Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l)Verb
(en verb)- To tell the truth the prospect rather quailed him – wandering about in the gloomy corridors of a nunnery.
- Stouter hearts than a woman's have quailed in this terrible winter.
- Mr. Utterson had already quailed at the name of Hyde; but when the stick was laid before him, he could doubt no longer; broken and battered as it was, he recognized it for one that he had himself presented many years before to Henry Jekyll.
- His heart quailed before the enormous pyramidal shape.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en-noun)- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* common quail * quailishSee also
* partridgeEtymology 3
(etyl) coaillier, (etyl) cailler, from (etyl) (lena) coagulare. See coagulate.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.}}