fawn
/fɔn/ verb C2- To give birth to a fawn.
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!
If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?”
“Are we all jackals, to fawn on this cattle butcher?
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