Definitions for fawns

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Spelling: [fawn]
IPA: /fɔn/

Fawns is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in fawns (afnsw).

Definitions for fawns

noun

  1. a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
  2. a light yellowish-brown color.

adjective

  1. light yellowish-brown.

verb (used without object)

  1. (of a doe) to bring forth young.
  2. to seek notice or favor by servile demeanor:
  3. (of a dog) to behave affectionately.

Origin of fawns

1225-75; Middle English fawn, foun Middle French faon, foun, feon ≪ Vulgar Latin *fētōn-, stem of *fētō offspring, derivative of Latin fētus fetus

Examples for fawns

You pet them and fawn on them, and naturally they get conceited.

I have a pet cat and a chicken, and papa says he will catch me a fawn.

fawn ran into the house, brought her jewels, and handed them to her father.

It is easier to them to fawn than to work, to flatter the great than to follow their example.

As they could not agree as to who should own the body of the fawn, they fell to blows.

He could have had half the town at his rooms to fawn upon him if he had cared for that sort of thing.

The huntsman having seized the fawn, will hand it to the keeper.

"They have told her to do it," whispered fawn, and stood firm.

The ugly dog began to fawn upon her, but he snarled at everybody else.

He never had at college even; he was as ready to fawn the next day.

Word Value for fawns
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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