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Synonyms for fawners


Grammar : Noun
Spell : fawn
Phonetic Transcription : fɔn

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Définition of fawners

Origin :
  • "young deer," mid-14c., from Anglo-French (late 13c.), Old French faon, feon "young animal" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *fetonem (nominative *feto), from Latin fetus "an offspring" (see fetus). Still used of the young of any animal in King James I's private translation of the Psalms, but mainly of deer from 15c. Color use is 1881.
  • As in minion : noun sycophant
  • As in sycophant : noun person who caters to another
  • As in toady : noun sycophant
  • As in yes-person : noun sycophant
  • As in apple polisher : noun yes person
  • As in brownnoser : noun sycophant, toady
  • As in yes man : noun someone following orders without question
  • As in adulator : noun sycophant
  • As in apple-polisher : noun sycophant
  • As in flatterer : noun complimenter
Example sentences :
  • The fawners and the cringers think the Zone is all askew, but Uncle never did have use for that that was not true.
  • Extract from : « Droll Stories of Isthmian Life » by Evelyn Saxton
  • Fawners and flatterers made a mighty triumph of it, and set up a cry which will occasionally find an echo to this day.
  • Extract from : « A Child's History of England » by Charles Dickens
  • He despised time-servers, trimmers, fawners and all sorts and kinds of pretenders.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) » by Robert G. Ingersoll

Antonyms for fawners

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