fawn
verb/fɔːn/
/fɔːn/
[intransitive] (disapproving)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they fawn | /fɔːn/ /fɔːn/ |
| he / she / it fawns | /fɔːnz/ /fɔːnz/ |
| past simple fawned | /fɔːnd/ /fɔːnd/ |
| past participle fawned | /fɔːnd/ /fɔːnd/ |
| -ing form fawning | /ˈfɔːnɪŋ/ /ˈfɔːnɪŋ/ |
- fawn (on/over somebody) to try to please somebody by praising them or paying them too much attention
- He seemed unaware of the girl’s fawning admiration.
- Why is everybody fawning over him as if he were a national hero?
Word Originverb Old English fagnian ‘make or be glad’, of Germanic origin; related to fain.
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