fawn
fawn
- n a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
- n a young deer
- v show submission or fear
- v try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
- v have fawns
deer fawn
- Iranian women flock here to rapturously fawn over delicate silk negligees, lace underwear and other fripperies that are available nowhere else in the Islamic Republic.
- Churchill, who had seen and envied Stalin's fawn outfit at Yalta, remembered that as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports he also was entitled to wear a fawn-colored uniform.
- Male-host barsmirror images of nightspots where giggling girls fawn over inebriated businessmenhave been on the fringe of Japan's colorful nightlife for decades, catering to .