Roe vs Fawn - What's the difference?
roe | fawn |
The eggs of fish.
The sperm of certain fish.
The ovaries of certain crustaceans.
A small, nimble Eurasian deer, Capreolus capreolus , with no visible tail, a white rump patch, and a reddish summer coat that turns grey in winter, the male having short three-pointed antlers.
A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
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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As nouns the difference between roe and fawn
is that roe is a withe or rope or roe can be flat or level ground while fawn is a young deer.As an adjective fawn is
of the fawn colour.As a verb fawn is
to give birth to a fawn or fawn can be to exhibit affection or attempt to please.roe
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from (etyl) .Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen , s.v. “Rogen” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2005).Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l) (obsolete)Noun
(-) (wikipedia roe)Quotations
* 1988' : It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of '''roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness. - , (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 40)Synonyms
* (sperm) miltDerived terms
* hard roe * soft roe * white roeSee also
* caviar * eggReferences
Etymology 2
(etyl) ro, from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun) (Roe Deer)Synonyms
* roe deer, chevreuilDerived terms
* roebuckAnagrams
* * ----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.}}
