• IPA: /fɔːn/

fawn (plural fawns)

1. A young deer.
2. A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.

    

3. (obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.

   • [The tigress] […] followeth […] after her fawns.

• French: faon
• German: Rehkitz, Kitz, Rehkalb, (rare in this sense) Kalb
• Italian: cerbiatto
• Portuguese: corço
• Russian: оленёнок
• Spanish: cervatillo

• German: hellbraun, beigebraun; (of hair also) dunkelblond
• Italian: fulvo chiaro, marrone chiaro
• Portuguese: fulvo
• Russian: желтовато-кори́чневый
• Spanish: beis, marrón claro

fawn (not comparable)

1. Of the fawn colour.

• German: beige, rehbraun
• Italian: fulvo
• Portuguese: fulvo

fawn (fawns, present participle fawning; past and past participle fawned)

1. (intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.

fawn (fawns, present participle fawning; past and past participle fawned)

1. (intransitive) To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
2. (intransitive) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon).
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene i]:

     You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds.

   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 23, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

   Synonyms: grovel, wheedle, soft-soap, toady

3. (intransitive, of a dog) To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.

• Italian: dimostrare affetto, fare le feste
• Portuguese: agradar
• Russian: ласка́ться

• French: ramper, flagorner
• German: schmeicheln
• Italian: adulare, leccare, essere servile
• Portuguese: puxar saco, bajular, adular
• Russian: лебези́ть

• Italian: scodinzolare

fawn (plural fawns)

1. (rare) A servile cringe or bow.
2. Base flattery.