fawn

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fawn2 adjectiveadj

CChaving a pale yellow-brown colour 浅黄褐色的

Examples from the Corpus

fawn• Her hair was a thick glossy bush of pale fawn brown, not quite shoulder-length.• A fawn jacket over the top.

fawn3 verb [intransitiveI]

PRAISEto praise someone and be friendly to them in an insincere way, because you want them to like you or give you something 巴结，讨好

fawn on/over

I refused to fawn over her or flatter her.

我不愿意讨好她或恭维她。

—fawning adjectiveadj

Examples from the Corpus

fawn• Everyone crowded round, fawning at him and readily taking up his offer of free drinks.• The Salomon salesmen fawn over the thrift men.• The adverts scold us and cajole us and wheedle us and fawn us to keep up with the Joneses.

fawn on/over• Now she's fawning over her mistress again and whatever plans Horatia has, you may be sure Connell will help her.• People were fawning over him, hoping for tickets.• With just a few honourable exceptions, congressmen fawn over him whenever he comes to town.• She, poor woman, had at last found a grown-up man, and showed her pleasure by fawning on Porua.• The Salomon salesmen fawn over the thrift men.

Origin fawn1

(1300-1400) French faon “young animal”, from Latin fetus; → FETUS

fawn3

Old English fagnian “to show great happiness”, from fægen; FAIN

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