different between dodge vs fawn

English

Etymology

Uncertain, but possibly from Old English dydrian, by way of dialectal dodd or dodder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?d?/

• Rhymes: -?d?

Verb

dodge (third-person singular simple present dodges, present participle dodging, simple past and past participle dodged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.

   He dodged traffic crossing the street.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.

   The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
3. (archaic) To go hither and thither.
4. (photography, videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
5. (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, II.iii.7:

     “I had a notion he was dodging me all the way I came, for I saw him just behind me, turn which way I would.”

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

     A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.
6. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To trick somebody.

Synonyms

• (to avoid): duck, evade, fudge, skirt, shun

Derived terms

• dodge a bullet
• dodger
• dodgy

Translations

Noun

dodge (plural dodges)

1. An act of dodging.
2. A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
   • 1869, Punch (volume 57, page 257)

     “Ain't this a rum go? This is a queer sort of dodge for lighting the streets.”
3. (slang) A line of work.
   • 1992, Time (volume 140, issues 1-9, page 74)

     In the marketing dodge, that is known as rub-off.

   • 2009, Chris Knopf, Head Wounds (page 233)

     Through a series of unconventional circumstances, some my fault, Jackie had found herself working both civil and criminal sides of the real estate dodge, which put her among a rare breed of attorney […]

Adjective

dodge (comparative more dodge, superlative most dodge)

1. (Australia) dodgy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??n/
• Rhymes: -??n
• Homophone: faun

Etymology 1

From Middle English foun, fawne, from Old French faon, from Vulgar Latin *fetonem, from Latin f?tus (“offspring, young”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?(y)- (“to suckle, nurse”)

Noun

fawn (plural fawns)

1. A young deer.
2. A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.

3. (obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.

   • she [the tigress] rageth upon the shore and the sands, for the losse of her fawnes

Derived terms

• in fawn

Translations

Adjective

fawn (not comparable)

1. Of the fawn colour.

Derived terms

• fawn lily

Translations

Verb

fawn (third-person singular simple present fawns, present participle fawning, simple past and past participle fawned)

1. (intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fawnen, from Old English fahnian, fagnian, fæ?nian (“to rejoice, make glad”). Akin to Old Norse fagna (“to rejoice”). See also fain.

Verb

fawn (third-person singular simple present fawns, present participle fawning, simple past and past participle fawned)

1. (intransitive) To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
2. (intransitive) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon).

   Synonyms: grovel, wheedle, soft-soap, toady

3. (intransitive, of a dog) To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.

Derived terms

• fawn over
• overfawn

Translations

Noun

fawn (plural fawns)

1. (rare) A servile cringe or bow.
2. Base flattery.

See also

• Appendix:Colors

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

• faun, faawn

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Faunus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fau?n/

Noun

fawn (plural fawnes or fawny)

1. faun, satyr

Descendants

• English: faun

References

• “faun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vau?n/

Verb

fawn

1. Soft mutation of bawn.

Mutation