different between fawn vs gawn

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

English

Etymology 1

Corrupted from gallon.

Noun

gawn (plural gawns)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A small tub or lading vessel.

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Etymology 2

Corrupted from going.

Verb

gawn

1. (pronunciation spelling) Eye dialect spelling of certain regional pronunciations of going.
   • 1841, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, The Inheritance, page 8:

     I'm no used to your grandees, and I'm no gawn to begin to learn fashionable mainners noo — so dinna ask me — I'm no gawn to mak a fule o' mysel' at this time o' day.

   • 2007, Jacqueline Wales, When the Crow Sings, page 110:

     Agnes came in dressed in nightgown and curlers. “Are we still gawn to the church bingo the night? I told Bessie I'd be gawn.”

   • 2014, Charles R. Allen, 99 Cent Adventure Time Stories: The House of Weird Sleep, page 3:

     “Ah'm gawn to tear yore skin off with this here whip,” came the guttural voice from behind him. “Then ah'm gawn to rub salt in the cuts an' leave you hyar on the floor.”

Anagrams

• AgNW, Ngwa, Wang, g'wan, gnaw, gwan, wang

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?au?n/

Noun

gawn

1. Soft mutation of cawn.

Verb

gawn

1. Soft mutation of cawn.

Mutation