fawns
Meaning of fawns
plural noun
- a young deer in its first year.
a six-month-old roe fawn
- a light brown colour.
soft shades of pale green and fawn
a fawn dress
- (of a deer) produce young.
the forest was closed for hunting when the does were fawning
late Middle English: from Old French faon, based on Latin fetus ‘offspring’; compare with fetus.
verb, 3rd person present
(of a person) give a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection, typically in order to gain favour.
Old English fagnian ‘make or be glad’, of Germanic origin; related to fain.
Information about fawns
- The singular form of fawns is: fawn.
- Languages in which fawns is used:
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Hyphenation of fawns
fawns
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- fawns is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
fawns synonyms
Meaning a pale sandy fawn colour:
Meaning a yellowish-beige colour:
Meaning a loose granular substance, typically pale yellowish brown, resulting from the erosion of siliceous and other rocks and forming a major constituent of beaches, river beds, the seabed, and deserts:
Meaning a light, crumbly biscuit, typically made with chopped pecans:
Meaning meal made from ground oats, used in porridge, oatcakes, or other food:
Meaning made from the grains or flour of wheat:
Meaning a small baked unleavened cake, typically crisp, flat, and sweet:
Meaning a large, long-necked ungulate mammal of arid country, with long slender legs, broad cushioned feet, and either one or two humps on the back. Camels can survive for long periods without food or drink, :
Meaning (in Russia and Poland) porridge made from cooked buckwheat or similar grain:
Meaning the light fawn colour of unbleached linen:
Meaning grey with a tinge of brown:
Meaning hard solid non-metallic mineral matter of which rock is made, especially as a building material:
Meaning a colour between beige and grey:
Meaning a fungal growth that typically takes the form of a domed cap on a stalk, with gills on the underside of the cap:
Meaning a soft, malleable greyish-yellow paste, made from ground chalk and raw linseed oil, that hardens after a few hours and is used for sealing glass in window frames and filling holes in wood:
Meaning an impartial or unbiased state or person:
Meaning a person having an innate talent for a particular task or activity:
Meaning lavish praise and compliments on (someone), often insincerely and with the aim of furthering one's own interests:
Meaning express warm approval or admiration of:
Meaning praise highly in speech or writing:
Meaning obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree:
Meaning having or showing an excessive willingness to serve or please others:
Meaning behaving or done in an obsequious way in order to gain advantage:
Meaning full of praise and compliments:
Meaning intended to gain approval or favour; sycophantic:
Meaning excessively flattering or ingratiating; oily:
Meaning rich in, covered with, or producing oil; oily:
Meaning containing oil:
Meaning servile or submissive:
Meaning acting obsequiously in order to obtain forgiveness or favour:
Meaning (of something bad) experienced or present to the maximum degree:
Meaning move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground:
Meaning (of a plant) growing along the ground or other surface by means of extending stems or branches:
Meaning bent in fear or apprehension:
Meaning throw oneself flat on the ground so as to be lying face downwards, especially in reverence or submission:
Meaning behaving in an excessively obedient or servile way as a means of gaining favour:
Meaning ingratiating and wheedling in a way that is regarded as insincere or excessive:
Meaning covered by or resembling slime:
Meaning containing or covered with soap:
Meaning of, like, or containing soap; soapy:
Words that rhyme with fawns
awns, bawns, dawns, predawns, outfawns, leprechawns, flawns, lawns, treelawns, impawns, pawns, spawns, supawns, suppawns, brawns, prawns, rawns, yawns
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