fawn

Word family nounfawnerfawningfawnfawningnessadverbfawningly

Related topics: Animals

fawn1 /fɔːn $ fɒːn/ noun → faun

[countableC]HBA a young deer 幼鹿

2. [uncountableU] a pale yellow-brown colour 浅黄褐色

Examples from the Corpus

fawn• Abandoned fawns have been reared on a bottle, only to die within a few months.• Colours were brutal and depressing; dank shades like dung and army-blanket fawn.• She has two young calves that look remarkably like fawns without spots.

Related topics: Colours

fawn2 adjectiveadj

CChaving a pale yellow-brown colour 浅黄褐色的

Examples from the Corpus

fawn• Her hair was a thick glossy bush of pale fawn brown, not quite shoulder-length.• A fawn jacket over the top.

fawn3 verb [intransitiveI]

PRAISEto praise someone and be friendly to them in an insincere way, because you want them to like you or give you something 巴结，讨好

fawn on/over

I refused to fawn over her or flatter her.

我不愿意讨好她或恭维她。

—fawning adjectiveadj

Examples from the Corpus

fawn• Everyone crowded round, fawning at him and readily taking up his offer of free drinks.• The Salomon salesmen fawn over the thrift men.• The adverts scold us and cajole us and wheedle us and fawn us to keep up with the Joneses.

fawn on/over• Now she's fawning over her mistress again and whatever plans Horatia has, you may be sure Connell will help her.• People were fawning over him, hoping for tickets.• With just a few honourable exceptions, congressmen fawn over him whenever he comes to town.• She, poor woman, had at last found a grown-up man, and showed her pleasure by fawning on Porua.• The Salomon salesmen fawn over the thrift men.

Origin fawn1

(1300-1400) French faon “young animal”, from Latin fetus; → FETUS

fawn3

Old English fagnian “to show great happiness”, from fægen; FAIN

词汇	fawn
释义	fawn Word family nounfawnerfawningfawnfawningnessadverbfawningly Related topics: Animals fawn1 /fɔːn $ fɒːn/ noun → faun 1. [countableC]HBA a young deer 幼鹿 2. [uncountableU] a pale yellow-brown colour 浅黄褐色 Examples from the Corpus fawn• Abandoned fawns have been reared on a bottle, only to die within a few months.• Colours were brutal and depressing; dank shades like dung and army-blanket fawn.• She has two young calves that look remarkably like fawns without spots. Related topics: Colours fawn2 adjectiveadj CChaving a pale yellow-brown colour 浅黄褐色的 Examples from the Corpus fawn• Her hair was a thick glossy bush of pale fawn brown, not quite shoulder-length.• A fawn jacket over the top. fawn3 verb [intransitiveI] PRAISEto praise someone and be friendly to them in an insincere way, because you want them to like you or give you something 巴结，讨好 fawn on/over I refused to fawn over her or flatter her. 我不愿意讨好她或恭维她。 —fawning adjectiveadj Examples from the Corpus fawn• Everyone crowded round, fawning at him and readily taking up his offer of free drinks.• The Salomon salesmen fawn over the thrift men.• The adverts scold us and cajole us and wheedle us and fawn us to keep up with the Joneses. fawn on/over• Now she's fawning over her mistress again and whatever plans Horatia has, you may be sure Connell will help her.• People were fawning over him, hoping for tickets.• With just a few honourable exceptions, congressmen fawn over him whenever he comes to town.• She, poor woman, had at last found a grown-up man, and showed her pleasure by fawning on Porua.• The Salomon salesmen fawn over the thrift men. Origin fawn1 (1300-1400) French faon “young animal”, from Latin fetus; → FETUS fawn3 Old English fagnian “to show great happiness”, from fægen; FAIN
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