1. fawn - Noun
2. fawn - Adjective
3. fawn - Verb
A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.
The young of an animal; a whelp.
A fawn color.
Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.
To bring forth a fawn.
To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon.
A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers. Fidel Castro
Let any man show the world that he feels Afraid of its bark and 't will fly at his heels: Let him fearlessly face it, 't will leave him alone: But 't will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone. Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter. Dorothy Parker
Better a dog fawn on you than bite you. Dutch Proverb
Life is like a mirror if you fawn it, it fawns back and if you smile, it smiles. African Proverb
Better a dog fawn on you than bark at you. Scottish Proverb