All 7 Uses of
fawn
in
David Copperfield
- That mean, fawning fellow, worm himself into such promotion!'†
Chpt 25-27 *
- 'Present circumstances is not what your friends would wish for you, Mister Copperfield, but it isn't money makes the man: it's — I am really unequal with my umble powers to express what it is,' said Uriah, with a fawning jerk, 'but it isn't money!'†
Chpt 34-36
- 'And how do you think we are looking, Master Copperfield, — I should say, Mister?' fawned Uriah.†
Chpt 34-36fawned = showed excessive flattery or affection
- He received me in his usual fawning way, and pretended not to have heard of my arrival from Mr. Micawber; a pretence I took the liberty of disbelieving.†
Chpt 37-39
- 'You haven't need to say so much, nor half so much, nor anything at all,' observed Uriah, half defiant, and half fawning.†
Chpt 37-39
- But I thought — I implore you to remember the narrow construction which has been my besetting sin — that, in a case where there was so much disparity in point of years —' 'That's the way to put it, you see, Master Copperfield!' observed Uriah, with fawning and offensive pity.†
Chpt 40-42
- A moment afterwards, he was as fawning and as humble as ever.†
Chpt 52-54
Definitions:
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(1)
(fawn as in: fawned all over her) showing excessive flattery or affection
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
"Fawn" more commonly describes a young deer.