fawn
/fɔn/ verb C2- To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.
- To exhibit affection toward someone.
- To attempt to please someone.
- To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour.
He/she/it fawns · Past fawned · Past participle fawned · -ing form fawning
Verb forms
- Base form
- fawn
- He/she/it
- fawns
- Past
- fawned
- Past participle
- fawned
- -ing form
- fawning
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## The Fawn and His Mother
A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother, “You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother!
He often lamented his own hard fate and contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the Lapdog, till at last one day he broke his cords and halter, and galloped into his master’s house, kicking up his heels without measure, and frisking and fawning as well as he could.
A HOUND having started a Hare on the hillside pursued her for some distance, at one time biting her with his teeth as if he would take her life, and at another fawning upon her, as if in play with another dog.
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