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fawner|ˈfɔːnə(r)|
[f. fawn v.1 + -er1.]
One who fawns, cringes, or flatters; a toady.
c1440Promp. Parv. 146/1 Faynare, or flaterere, adulator. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 106 b, Flatterers, fawners, and southers of mennes saiynges. 1685Gracian's Courtiers Orac. 156 All the Fawners..are so many Monsters of impertinence. a1715Burnet Own Time (1766) I. 68 His diary..represents him as an abject fawner on the Duke of Buckingham. 1812Southey Omniana II. 322 Certainly he was no fawner. 1864E. Sargent Peculiar I. 289 He..began to play the fawner once more. |