fawns in English

noun

1

a young deer in its first year.

There is also the loss of wild life, especially deer and their young fawns who graze high on the mountain slope and shelter in the forestry.

2

a light yellowish-brown color.

They are the descendants of an ancient population of fawn or brown coloured cattle which originally came from Asia.

synonyms: be obsequious to, be sycophantic to, curry favor with, flatter, play up to, crawl to, ingratiate oneself with, dance attendance on, suck up to, be all over, brown-nose, toady

verb

1

(of a deer) produce young.

2

(of a person) give a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection, typically in order to gain favor or advantage.

congressmen fawn over the President

noun

• dun

verb

• be obsequious to, be sycophantic to, curry favor with, flatter, play up to, crawl to, ingratiate oneself with, dance attendance on, suck up to, be all over, brown-nose, toady
• truckle, kowtow, kotow, toady, bootlick, suck up
• cower, cringe, creep, grovel, crawl

Use "fawns" in a sentence

1. He fawns on being a scientist.

2. Your two breasts are like fawns , like fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies.

3. Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

4. She has two young calves that look remarkably like fawns without spots.

5. Bleats from fawns are at a higher pitch than those from a mature doe

6. Thus, the cementum Annuli technique overestimated the age for fawns and 1.5-year-old deer almost 83% of the time

7. Abandoned fawns have been reared on a bottle, only to die within a few months.

8. Cover characteristics of the Bedsites were taller than cover characteristics of the surrounding area (P<0.015) for fawns less than 4 weeks of age, but were the same for fawns over 4 weeks of age.

9. Village dogs are reported to kill fawns, but are unlikely to successfully hunt and kill adults.

10. One of the bucks Bellowed at us, and one of the little fawns came almost under the wheels

11. Does and fawns emit Bleats throughout the year that can be used to lure bucks or even other does to your location

12. SPRINGFIELD - A Blacktail deer and her two fawns were found dead near Springfield on Monday, and Oregon State Police are looking for whoever is responsible

13. Abstract: Bedsites (N = 100) selected by radio-marked white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) fawns aged 2-12 weeks were studied in southcentral Iowa during 1980-82

14. No Bedsites were highest shrubs were found during the postreproductive season recorded for fawns during the surveys, almost all of the individual (Table 2).

15. Daytime Bedsites of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) fawns in the Wichita Mountains of southwest Oklahoma had surrounding herbaceous vegetation that was fairly consistent in average height

16. Synonyms for Brownnoses include flatters, bootlicks, toadies, apple-polishes, sucks up to, fawns on, curries favour, curry favors, back-scratches and gets on the right side of

17. Twin white-tailed deer fawns feed in a grassy meadow in Kentucky, US. Their reddish-brown coats will turn to a grey-brown as they mature in the autumn.

18. Synonyms & Antonyms of Alert (Entry 1 of 3) 1 the act or an instance of telling beforehand of danger or risk the white flash of the doe's raised tail, giving the "danger" Alert to her fawns