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noun fɔːnfɔn 1A young deer in its first year. Example sentencesExamples - Of course the original snowdoll melted in the end, and also some of the younger deer - fawns - used to lick it, which didn't help, but there you go.
- In six of the pairs, the fawns had different sires.
- I also spotted lots of white-tail fawns, some with chaperones.
- Mating is timed for deer birthing in late May or early June, when there is sufficient food and cover to assure fawn survival.
- Domestic dogs that roam free have been known to revert to their primal instincts and to attack and kill lame deer and fawns.
- If we just leave it to chance, we can't bank on these fawns making it to reproductive age.
- Over her average 10-year lifespan, a doe and her daughters can produce up to 100 fawns.
- In milder years, the herd of 12 does and fawns which migrates through my yard are much more selective in their tastes.
- In Central and Eastern Oregon, coyotes take 90 percent of the antelope fawns.
- Years of overgrazing have reduced the forage supply and largely eliminated cover for newborn fawns.
- Bucks are serial breeders, so more females mean more fawns and a bigger herd.
- ‘We found that elk, bison, moose, even the fawns, wouldn't move away unless a machine was stopped and a person started walking,’ he says.
- Most of their predation of deer is on fawns, although several members of a pack could bring down an adult.
- In recent years, fewer than 10 fawns per 100 does have survived, a rate that pronghorn experts say will inevitably lead to extinction of the herd.
- It did occur to me that if she fell over the fawns by mistake the deer might get quite cross about it, but fortunately, she didn't.
- There is also the loss of wild life, especially deer and their young fawns who graze high on the mountain slope and shelter in the forestry.
- Young fawns who can't jump the fence may impale themselves on the metal as they try to crawl underneath.
- Deer travel in small bands consisting of mothers, their grown daughters and fawns.
2mass noun A light brown colour. soft shades of pale green and fawn Example sentencesExamples - Eye-witness reports suggest the plane was a high-wing single engine aircraft, fawn coloured and brown underneath.
- She wore her shoulder length fawn colored hair pulled back into a ponytail at the nape of her neck.
- The colour range includes fawns, blues and claret.
- They are the descendants of an ancient population of fawn or brown coloured cattle which originally came from Asia.
- When we did a show we wore the light fawn jacket as worn by drivers and conductors during the summer.
- Foliage dwellers vary in colour from fawn to brown or bright green.
- Mature plants, which often grow wider than they grow tall, develop a good framework of stems with flaky fawn bark.
- The missing dogs have a wrinkled skin and are fawn in colour.
- My test car came in metallic green that complemented the delightful fawn interior and Momo leather seats.
- On the top of the skirt, it had fawn mesh a little longer than the actual dress, but black flowers were embroidered on it.
- The four-year-old girl, who is deaf, took the art lesson one step further by drawing a long green line on the Prince's fawn coloured suit.
- The colour balance of the look is tasteful and sedate, so grey, brown, fawn or navy tailoring works best.
- He was about three inches taller than her, with gray blue eyes, and a dusting of fawn colored freckles dotting his nose and cheeks.
- His facial fur was dark fawn with lighter streaks running back into his ruff, his eyes a glacial green.
- The fawn color varies in hue from tan to stag red.
- He was wearing a white linen tunic and light fawn colored pants that covered his plain brown boots.
- Instead of the usual grim-faced republican flag-bearers in black berets, khaki jumpers and dark glasses there was a genteel parade of men in green blazers and fawn slacks.
- Their fleece is favoured by spinners and weavers world wide for both the texture and the various colours of true non-fading black through to a brilliant white, with reds, roans, pintos, browns, fawns, rose and charcoal greys.
- The calf is fawn coloured, a colour which distinguishes it from the adults a great deal.
Synonyms beige, yellowish-brown, pale brown, buff, sand, sandy, oatmeal, wheaten, biscuit, café au lait, camel, kasha, ecru, taupe, stone, stone-coloured, greige, greyish-brown, mushroom, putty neutral, natural, naturelle
verb fɔːnfɔn [no object](of a deer) produce young. the forest was closed for hunting when the does were fawning
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French faon, based on Latin fetus 'offspring'; compare with fetus. faun from Late Middle English: In Roman mythology a faun was a lustful rural deity represented as a man with goat's horns, ears, legs, and tail. The word comes from the name of Faunus, a god of flocks and herds, who was associated with wooded places. He had a sister, Fauna, whose name in turn gives us fauna, which since the late 18th century has been used to mean ‘the animals of a particular region or period’. Flora (late 18th century), ‘the plants of a particular region or period’ comes from the name of Flora, an ancient Italian goddess of fertility and flowers, source also of floral (mid 18th century), floret (late 17th century), florid (mid 17th century), and florist (early 17th century). See also flower. The identically sounded fawn (Late Middle English) meaning ‘a young deer’ comes from Old French faon and is based on Latin fetus ‘offspring’. The word did not mean ‘a light brown colour’ until much later, in the late 19th century. The verb fawn is earlier, and is a quite different word. In Old English fagnian meant ‘make or be glad’, often used of a dog showing delight by wagging its tail, grovelling, or whining. Fawn was then used to convey the idea of a person giving a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection, particularly in order to gain favour.
Rhymes adorn, born, borne, bourn, Braun, brawn, corn, dawn, drawn, faun, forborne, forewarn, forlorn, freeborn, lawn, lorn, morn, mourn, newborn, Norn, outworn, pawn, prawn, Quorn, sawn, scorn, Sean, shorn, spawn, suborn, sworn, thorn, thrawn, torn, Vaughan, warn, withdrawn, worn, yawn verb fɔːnfɔn [no object]1(of a person) give a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection, typically in order to gain favour. congressmen fawn over the President Example sentencesExamples - Lila, stop fawning over Nicky and make yourself useful!
- It's disgusting, actually, the way she fawns all over him and then drools over Cale when his back is turned.
- The dance-hall girls would fawn over him each time he stepped into the saloon for a drink.
- He could have people fawning over and around him if he wanted, if that was what he wished.
- That evening, once everyone had stopped fawning over Jen, the girls partied in their hotel room eating all the snacks they could bring back from the store.
- It's not fair how beautiful girls fawn over you.
- I am what you call one of those extremely handsome young men that girls fawn over.
- But let me tell you this, I will not fawn over you just because you have loads of money.
- On Monday, a parade of European diplomats paid him a visit in Ramallah, complimenting his speech and fawning over him like devoted fans greeting a television star.
- He knew clearly what Chinese rule meant, but not only did he sell out his own conscience by fawning on China, he also wanted other people to join him in this masochistic ‘pleasure.’
- Just because all the girls fawn over you doesn't mean you're that good-looking.
- Considering how the media fawns on the ultra rich, we hear remarkably little about them.
- He always had lot of girlfriends, and people fawning over him.
- Luckily, Dylan was awake, so they could fawn over him some more.
- ‘You really are as nice as they say,’ Harry said, fawning over Hannah as if she were his Lord and Savior.
- You also get people fawning all over you because they've seen you on television.
- If you loved him before, you'll probably fawn over this picture.
- This is in keeping with Alex's fawning and childish devotion to the inauthentic.
- But soon you'll be making millions of dollars and girls will be fawning over you and you'll be the greatest rock star in the world.
- Are there any musicians that you would fawn over if you had the chance?
- People are fawning over you because you are their man of the moment.
Synonyms be obsequious to, be sycophantic to, be servile to, curry favour with, pay court to, play up to, crawl to, creep to, ingratiate oneself with, dance attendance on, fall over oneself for, kowtow to, toady to, truckle to, bow and scrape before, grovel before, cringe before, abase oneself before flatter, praise, sing the praises of, praise to the skies, praise to excess, eulogize informal sweet-talk, soft-soap, suck up to, make up to, smarm around, be all over, fall all over, butter up, lick someone's boots, rub up the right way, lay it on thick, lay it on with a trowel Australian/New Zealand informal smoodge to vulgar slang kiss someone's arse obsequious, servile, sycophantic, flattering, ingratiating, unctuous, oleaginous, oily, toadyish, slavish, bowing and scraping, grovelling, abject, crawling, creeping, cringing, prostrate, Uriah Heepish informal bootlicking, smarmy, slimy, sucky, soapy North American informal brown-nosing British vulgar slang arse-kissing, bum-sucking North American vulgar slang kiss-ass, ass-kissing, suckholing rare saponaceous - 1.1 (of a dog) show slavish devotion, especially by rubbing against someone.
the dogs started fawning on me
Origin Old English fagnian 'make or be glad', of Germanic origin; related to fain. nounfɔnfôn 1A young deer in its first year. Example sentencesExamples - Deer travel in small bands consisting of mothers, their grown daughters and fawns.
- In Central and Eastern Oregon, coyotes take 90 percent of the antelope fawns.
- Most of their predation of deer is on fawns, although several members of a pack could bring down an adult.
- Mating is timed for deer birthing in late May or early June, when there is sufficient food and cover to assure fawn survival.
- In recent years, fewer than 10 fawns per 100 does have survived, a rate that pronghorn experts say will inevitably lead to extinction of the herd.
- In milder years, the herd of 12 does and fawns which migrates through my yard are much more selective in their tastes.
- There is also the loss of wild life, especially deer and their young fawns who graze high on the mountain slope and shelter in the forestry.
- Domestic dogs that roam free have been known to revert to their primal instincts and to attack and kill lame deer and fawns.
- Young fawns who can't jump the fence may impale themselves on the metal as they try to crawl underneath.
- It did occur to me that if she fell over the fawns by mistake the deer might get quite cross about it, but fortunately, she didn't.
- In six of the pairs, the fawns had different sires.
- Over her average 10-year lifespan, a doe and her daughters can produce up to 100 fawns.
- Bucks are serial breeders, so more females mean more fawns and a bigger herd.
- Of course the original snowdoll melted in the end, and also some of the younger deer - fawns - used to lick it, which didn't help, but there you go.
- I also spotted lots of white-tail fawns, some with chaperones.
- ‘We found that elk, bison, moose, even the fawns, wouldn't move away unless a machine was stopped and a person started walking,’ he says.
- If we just leave it to chance, we can't bank on these fawns making it to reproductive age.
- Years of overgrazing have reduced the forage supply and largely eliminated cover for newborn fawns.
2A light yellowish-brown color. soft shades of pale green and fawn Example sentencesExamples - Eye-witness reports suggest the plane was a high-wing single engine aircraft, fawn coloured and brown underneath.
- The four-year-old girl, who is deaf, took the art lesson one step further by drawing a long green line on the Prince's fawn coloured suit.
- On the top of the skirt, it had fawn mesh a little longer than the actual dress, but black flowers were embroidered on it.
- The colour range includes fawns, blues and claret.
- When we did a show we wore the light fawn jacket as worn by drivers and conductors during the summer.
- She wore her shoulder length fawn colored hair pulled back into a ponytail at the nape of her neck.
- His facial fur was dark fawn with lighter streaks running back into his ruff, his eyes a glacial green.
- The colour balance of the look is tasteful and sedate, so grey, brown, fawn or navy tailoring works best.
- The missing dogs have a wrinkled skin and are fawn in colour.
- The calf is fawn coloured, a colour which distinguishes it from the adults a great deal.
- He was wearing a white linen tunic and light fawn colored pants that covered his plain brown boots.
- Instead of the usual grim-faced republican flag-bearers in black berets, khaki jumpers and dark glasses there was a genteel parade of men in green blazers and fawn slacks.
- The fawn color varies in hue from tan to stag red.
- Foliage dwellers vary in colour from fawn to brown or bright green.
- My test car came in metallic green that complemented the delightful fawn interior and Momo leather seats.
- Their fleece is favoured by spinners and weavers world wide for both the texture and the various colours of true non-fading black through to a brilliant white, with reds, roans, pintos, browns, fawns, rose and charcoal greys.
- They are the descendants of an ancient population of fawn or brown coloured cattle which originally came from Asia.
- He was about three inches taller than her, with gray blue eyes, and a dusting of fawn colored freckles dotting his nose and cheeks.
- Mature plants, which often grow wider than they grow tall, develop a good framework of stems with flaky fawn bark.
Synonyms beige, yellowish-brown, pale brown, buff, sand, sandy, oatmeal, wheaten, biscuit, café au lait, camel, kasha, ecru, taupe, stone, stone-coloured, greige, greyish-brown, mushroom, putty
verbfɔnfôn [no object](of a deer) produce young. the forest was closed for hunting when the does were fawning
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French faon, based on Latin fetus ‘offspring’; compare with fetus. verbfônfɔn [no object]1(of a person) give a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection, typically in order to gain favor or advantage. congressmen fawn over the President Example sentencesExamples - You also get people fawning all over you because they've seen you on television.
- Are there any musicians that you would fawn over if you had the chance?
- If you loved him before, you'll probably fawn over this picture.
- The dance-hall girls would fawn over him each time he stepped into the saloon for a drink.
- On Monday, a parade of European diplomats paid him a visit in Ramallah, complimenting his speech and fawning over him like devoted fans greeting a television star.
- He could have people fawning over and around him if he wanted, if that was what he wished.
- Just because all the girls fawn over you doesn't mean you're that good-looking.
- ‘You really are as nice as they say,’ Harry said, fawning over Hannah as if she were his Lord and Savior.
- I am what you call one of those extremely handsome young men that girls fawn over.
- But soon you'll be making millions of dollars and girls will be fawning over you and you'll be the greatest rock star in the world.
- People are fawning over you because you are their man of the moment.
- He always had lot of girlfriends, and people fawning over him.
- It's not fair how beautiful girls fawn over you.
- Lila, stop fawning over Nicky and make yourself useful!
- He knew clearly what Chinese rule meant, but not only did he sell out his own conscience by fawning on China, he also wanted other people to join him in this masochistic ‘pleasure.’
- Considering how the media fawns on the ultra rich, we hear remarkably little about them.
- This is in keeping with Alex's fawning and childish devotion to the inauthentic.
- That evening, once everyone had stopped fawning over Jen, the girls partied in their hotel room eating all the snacks they could bring back from the store.
- Luckily, Dylan was awake, so they could fawn over him some more.
- It's disgusting, actually, the way she fawns all over him and then drools over Cale when his back is turned.
- But let me tell you this, I will not fawn over you just because you have loads of money.
Synonyms obsequious, servile, sycophantic, flattering, ingratiating, unctuous, oleaginous, oily, toadyish, slavish, bowing and scraping, grovelling, abject, crawling, creeping, cringing, prostrate, uriah heepish be obsequious to, be sycophantic to, be servile to, curry favour with, pay court to, play up to, crawl to, creep to, ingratiate oneself with, dance attendance on, fall over oneself for, kowtow to, toady to, truckle to, bow and scrape before, grovel before, cringe before, abase oneself before - 1.1 (of an animal, especially a dog) show slavish devotion, especially by crawling and rubbing against someone.
Origin Old English fagnian ‘make or be glad’, of Germanic origin; related to fain. |