Usually means: Young deer, or show servility.
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  1. fawn: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fawn, fawn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fawn, fawn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fawn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fawn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fawn, fawn: Wordnik
  7. fawn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fawn: Wiktionary
  9. fawn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fawn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fawn: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fawn, fawn: Dictionary.com
  13. fawn (n.), fawn (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fawn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fawn (color), Fawn (colour), Fawn (disambiguation), Fawn, The Fawn (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fawn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fawn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fawn: Rhymezone
  19. fawn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fawn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. fawn: Free Dictionary
  22. fawn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. fawn: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  2. fawn: Medical dictionary

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  4. fawn: A Word A Day
  5. fawn: Idioms

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  1. fawn: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

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  1. The Fawn, fawn(s): Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fawned as well.)

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noun:  A young deer.
noun:  A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
noun:  (obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.
adjective:  Of the fawn colour.
verb:  (intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.
verb:  (intransitive) To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
verb:  (intransitive) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon).
verb:  (intransitive, of a dog) To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.
noun:  (rare) A servile cringe or bow.
noun:  Base flattery.

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