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Definition

showing excessive flattery or affection

"Fawn" is also used to describe a young deer.

fawns = shows excessive flattery or affection

It's disgusting to watch her fawn over everything her boss says while she hopes for a promotion.

fawn = show excessive flattery or affection

The dog yelped running to them, reared up and pawed them, dropping on all fours, again reared up at them with mute bearish fawning.
James Joyce -- Ulysses

fawning = showing excessive affection

When that first crew had come, I had been a desperate thing, ready to fawn on anyone who smiled at me.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

fawn = show excessive affection

Are we all jackals, to fawn on this cattle butcher?
Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book

fawn = show excessive affection

I bet Krum can see right through him, though.... bet he gets people fawning over him all the time...
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

fawning = showing excessive flattery or affection

Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation!
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities

fawning = showing excessive flattery or affection

[Aside] How like a fawning publican he looks!
William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice

fawning = showing excessive flattery or affection

Khanum Taheri's chaperoning made our meetings, if not gossip-proof, then less gossip-worthy, even if her borderline fawning on me clearly embarrassed Soraya.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

fawning = showing excessive flattery or affection

As soon as I was back again he returned to his former manner, half fawning, half sneering, patted me on the shoulder, told me I was a good boy and he had taken quite a fancy to me.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island

fawning = showing excessive flattery or affection

Calypso fawned over him, and you turned his men to pigs.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

fawned = showed excessive affection

How I would make him fawn, and beg, and seek,
William Shakespeare -- Love's Labour's Lost

fawn = show excessive flattery or affection

I find myself pleased when slum people bow and scrape and fawn over me.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

fawn = show excessive flattery or affection

Thy brother by decree is banished: If thou dost bend, and pray, and fawn for him, I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
William Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar

fawn = show affection

fawn = show excessive flattery or affection

fawn = show excessive flattery or affection

fawn = show excessive affection

She would go and fawn upon him slavelike—for this would have to be her attitude, of course—and maybe she would find that time had modified him, and that he would be glad to see his long-forgotten old nurse and treat her gently.
Mark Twain -- Pudd'nhead Wilson

fawn = show excessive flattery or affection

"It's not that," said he, "but she charged him, in the presence of her intended husband, with being disappointed in the hope of fawning upon her for his own advancement, and, if he were to go to her now, it would look true—even to him—and even to her."
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

fawning = showing excessive flattery or affection

I removed the habit, and there shone forth beneath a grand plaid silk frock, white trousers, and burnished shoes; and, while her eyes sparkled joyfully when the dogs came bounding up to welcome her, she dared hardly touch them lest they should fawn upon her splendid garments.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights

fawn = jump on (show excessive affection)

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