| 单词 | fawning |
| 释义 | fawning (once / 5518 pages) adj Use fawning to describe someone who's over the top in the flattery department. Like a fawning admirer who just won't stop complimenting your looks, showering you with gifts and otherwise kissing the ground you walk on. From the Old English fægnian, meaning “rejoice, exult, be glad,” fawning can be both an adjective and a noun form of the verb fawn. Fawning people are often trying to win favor with the person being flattered, and it sometimes comes off as sucking up. So do everyone a favor and don't try to boost your poor grades by fawning over your professor’s every word. WORD FAMILYfawning: fawningest, fawningly+/fawn: fawn-colored, fawned, fawner, fawning, fawns/fawner: fawners USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s been retweeted thousands of times, gaining fawning praise from much of the liberal intelligentsia. Slate(Dec 16, 2016) “Then two or three years later … everyone’s fawning over him!” he said. Seattle Times(Dec 09, 2016) Mr. Siem is intensely passionate when talking about classical music, and mildly bemused when pushed on being the subject of the fashion world’s fawning admiration. New York Times(Dec 07, 2016) 1adj attempting to win favor by flattery Syn bootlicking, sycophantic, toadyish servile submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior 2adj attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery Syn bootlicking, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish insincere lacking sincerity |
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