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fawn 音标拼音: [f'ɔn] n. 小鹿
vi. 奉承,闹着玩,撒娇 小鹿奉承,闹着玩,撒娇 fawn n 1: a color or pigment varying around a light grey- brown color; " she wore dun" [ synonym: { dun}, { greyish brown}, { grayish brown}, { fawn}] 2: a young deer v 1: show submission or fear [ synonym: { fawn}, { crawl}, { creep}, { cringe}, { cower}, { grovel}] 2: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; " He is always kowtowing to his boss" [ synonym: { fawn}, { toady}, { truckle}, { bootlick}, { kowtow}, { kotow}, { suck up}] 3: have fawns; " deer fawn" Fawn \ Fawn\, a. Of the color of a fawn; fawn- colored. [ 1913 Webster]
Fawn \ Fawn\, v. i. [ Cf. F. faonner.] To bring forth a fawn. [ 1913 Webster]
Fawn \ Fawn\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Fawned}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Fawning}.] [ OE. fawnen, fainen, fagnien, to rejoice, welcome, flatter, AS. f[ ae] gnian to rejoice; akin to Icel. fagna to rejoice, welcome. See { Fain}.] To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon. [ 1913 Webster] You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Thou with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster]
Fawn \ Fawn\, n. [ OF. faon the young one of any beast, a fawn, F. faon a fawn, for fedon, fr. L. fetus. See { Fetus}.] 1. ( Zool.) A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See { Buck}. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The young of an animal; a whelp. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] [ The tigress] . . . followeth . . . after her fawns. -- Holland. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A fawn color. [ 1913 Webster]
Fawn \ Fawn\, n. A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 166 Moby Thesaurus words for " fawn": Cape elk, Virginia deer, abase, antelope, apple- polish, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, beige, bend the knee, birdling, blandish, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, brown, brownish, brownish- yellow, brunet, buck, butter up, cajole, calf, calve, camel, camelopard, caribou, cast, cater to, catling, cave, chick, chickling, chicky, chocolate, cinnamon, coax, cocoa, cocoa- brown, coffee, coffee- brown, colt, cotton, court, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, cub, curry favor, dance, debase, deer, deerlet, defer, demean, doe, dogie, drab, dromedary, drop, duckling, dun, dun- brown, dun- drab, ecru, eland, elk, fallow deer, farrow, fawn- colored, flatter, fledgling, foal, fryer, fuscous, gazelle, giraffe, give birth, gnu, gosling, grege, grovel, hart, hartebeest, have, have a baby, have young, hazel, hind, invite, kaama, khaki, kid, kit, kitten, kneel, kowtow, labor, lamb, lambkin, lick the dust, lickspittle, lie in, litter, lurid, make up to, moose, mule deer, musk deer, nest, nestling, nut- brown, okapi, olive- brown, olive- drab, pander to, piglet, pigling, polliwog, pullet, pup, puppy, red deer, reindeer, roe, roe deer, roebuck, seal, seal- brown, sepia, shoat, slaver, snuff- colored, sorrel, springbok, stag, stoop, submit, suck up to, tadpole, tan, taupe, tawny, throw, toadeat, toady, toast, toast- brown, travail, truckle, umber, umber- colored, walnut, walnut- brown, weaner, wheedle, whelp, wildebeest, woo, yean, yeanling, yellowish- brown, yield
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