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fawning en · ADJ

Pronunciation

/fɔːnɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
(US) audio
/fɔnɪŋ/ (General-American)
/fɑnɪŋ/ (cot-caught-merger)

Meanings

Seeking favor by way of flattery; flattering, servile.
- Shylock: How like a fawning publican he looks ![…] c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

Deriveds

Translations (11)

gl adulador (seeking favor by way of flattery) · cs podlézavý (seeking favor by way of flattery) · it adulatore (seeking favor by way of flattery) · bg раболепен (seeking favor by way of flattery) · de kriecherisch (seeking favor by way of flattery) · de schmeichelnd (seeking favor by way of flattery) · gl afagador (seeking favor by way of flattery) · rgn adulatôr (seeking favor by way of flattery) · la blandus (seeking favor by way of flattery) · de unterwürfig (seeking favor by way of flattery) · rgn aduladôr (seeking favor by way of flattery)

fawning en · NOUN

Pronunciation

/fɔːnɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
(US) audio
/fɔnɪŋ/ (General-American)
/fɑnɪŋ/ (cot-caught-merger)

Meanings

Servile flattery.
- Xantippus found his ruin ere it reached him, Lurking behind your honours and rewards; Found it in your feigned courtesies and fawnings. 1818, Hannah More, The Inflexible Captive:
- Hamlet: No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
fawnings	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (7)

gl adulación (servile flattery) · cs podlézání (servile flattery) · cs podlézavost (servile flattery) · bg раболепие (servile flattery) · de Schmeichelei (servile flattery) · enm fawnynge (servile flattery) · grc κολακεία (servile flattery)

fawning en · VERB

Pronunciation

/fɔːnɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
(US) audio
/fɔnɪŋ/ (General-American)
/fɑnɪŋ/ (cot-caught-merger)

Meanings

(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of fawn
form of fawn
- That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: