Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To bring forth a fawn
2. To court favor, or show attachment to, by frisking about one; as, a dog fawns on his master.
3. To soothe; to flatter meanly; to blandish; to court servilely; to cringe and bow to gain favor; as a fawning favorite or minion.
4. My love, forbear to fawn upon their frowns.
Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.
2. The young of an animal; a whelp.
3. A fawn color.
1. To bring forth a fawn.
Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
One who fawns; one who cringes and flatters meanly.
Servility Roget’s Thesaurus §886
N. servility, slavery, obsequiousness, subserviency, abasement, prostration, prosternation|, genuflection, fawning, tuft- hunting, timeserving, flunkeyism, sycophancy, humility, sycophant, parasite, toad, toady, toad-eater, tufthunter, snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight, timeserver, fortune hunter, vicar of bray, sir-pertinax, max sycophant, pickthank, flatterer, doer of dirty work, ame damnee, tool, reptile, slave, courtier, beat*, dead beat*, doughface *, heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker*, tagtail, truckler
V. cringe, bow, stoop, kneel, bend the knee, fall on one's knees, prostrate oneself, worship, sneak, crawl, crouch, cower, sponge, truckle to, grovel, fawn, lick the feet of, kiss the hem of one's garment, kiss one's ass, suck up, pay court to, feed on, fatten on, dance attendance on, pin oneself upon, hang on the sleeve of, avaler les couleuvres, keep time to, fetch and carry, do the dirty work of, go with the stream, worship the rising sun, hold with the hare and run with the hounds
Adj. servile, obsequious, supple, supple as a glove, soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed, beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical, abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones, base, mean, sneaking, crouching
Adv. hat in hand, cap in hand
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0 KJV and 6 BSB verses contain “fawn”
Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
