Both Uses of
fawn
in
A Thousand Acres
- Just because they were rabbits and birds instead of fawns—I don't know.†
p. 235.1 *fawns = shows excessive flattery or affection
- Once Harold was driving the cornpicker, when Jess was a boy, and there was a fawn lying in the corn, and Harold drove right over it rather than leave the row standing, or turn, or even just stop and chase it away.†
p. 234.9
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 rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
"Fawn" more commonly describes a young deer.