fawned

verbingratiate oneself to; serve

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verb ingratiate oneself to; serve

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Word Origin & History

"young deer," mid-14c., from Anglo-French (late 13c.), Old French faon, feon "young animal" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *fetonem (nominative *feto), from Latin fetus "an offspring" (see fetus). Still used of the young of any animal in King James I's private translation of the Psalms, but mainly of deer from 15c. Color use is 1881.

Example Sentences for fawned

Also, like a faithful dog, Guido Bombini fawned close to him.

That girl's eyes, like a little adoring dog's—that girl, who had fawned on her so!

I returned his caresses as he fawned on me, finding me not dead as he supposed.

Ugly and cross as the dog was, he fawned on her, and the old woman had left him to her care.

Ucatella was the first to see him coming, and came and fawned on him with delight.

When it saw the hermit tending its master, it fawned at his feet.

She stood in the shop door, and looked lovingly down on us as we fawned on her.

“Well, well, you do know what you want,” fawned the shoeman.

Bad as it is to be fawned upon, it is better than to be bitten.

He was looked upon as the world's jester when Wilde fawned upon him.

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