1. A young deer
   "The spotted fawn stayed close to its mother"
    
2. A colour or pigment varying around a light grey-brown colour
   "she wore fawn";
   - dun, greyish brown [Brit, Cdn], grayish brown [US]

1. Attempt to gain favour through obsequious behaviour or flattery
   "The new employee fawned over the boss";
   - toady, truckle, bootlick [informal], kowtow, kotow, suck up [informal], smoodge [Austral, informal]
    
2. (of an animal, esp. a dog) show affection through submissive behaviour like crouching, tail-wagging, or licking
   "The dog fawned at her feet"
    
3. Have fawns
   "deer fawn"

Sounds like: fates, fetes, fêfawn

Derived forms: fawns, fawned, fawning

Type of: bear, birth, blandish, cervid, deer, deliver, flatter, give birth, have, light brown, young mammal

Encyclopedia: Fawn, Missouri