Tawny vs Fawn - What's the difference?
tawny | fawn |
Of a light brown to brownish orange colour
* 1908 ,
A light brown to brownish orange colour
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 adjectives the difference between tawny and fawn
is that tawny is of a light brown to brownish orange colour while fawn is of the fawn colour.As nouns the difference between tawny and fawn
is that tawny is a light brown to brownish orange colour while fawn is a young deer.As a verb fawn is
to give birth to a fawn or fawn can be to exhibit affection or attempt to please.tawny
English
Adjective
(er)- They fell a-twittering among themselves once more, and this time their intoxicating babble was of violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls.
Synonyms
*Noun
Derived terms
* tawny owl * tawny portfawn
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.}}