adjective, noun, verb
adjective light yellowish-brown in colour:
a fawn coat
Part of speech: noun
1 [C] a deer less than one year old
2 [U] a light yellowish-brown colour
verb [V] ~ (on / over sb) (disapproving) to try to please sb by praising them or paying them too much attention:
He seemed unaware of the girl's fawning admiration.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for fawn is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is fawn a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, fawn is tagged as noun.
Does fawn appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — fawn appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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