Another word for fawn
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Verb
To support slavishly every opinion or suggestion of a superior
- A person who flatters or defers to others obsequiously; a sycophant.
- Any of various shrubby plants of the genus Gossypium, having showy flowers and grown for the soft white downy fibers surrounding oil-rich seeds.
- The fiber of any of these plants, used in making textiles and other products.
- Thread or cloth manufactured from the fiber of these plants.
- To curry favor with in an obsequious manner; fawn on.
- A small wheel or roller; a caster.
- To be servile or submissive.
- A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant.
- To be a toady to or behave like a toady.
- To slobber; drool.
- To behave in an obsequious manner.
- Saliva drooling from the mouth.
- To kneel and touch the forehead to the ground in expression of deep respect, worship, or submission, as formerly done in China.
- To show servile deference.
- The act of kneeling and touching the forehead to the ground.
- To behave in a servile or obsequious manner.
- To lie or creep in a prostrate position, as in subservience or humility.
- To give oneself over to base pleasures:
- To shrink back, as in fear; cower.
- To behave in a servile way; fawn.
- An act or instance of cringing.
- To behave like a sycophant toward (someone) or behave like a sycophant.
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Another word for fawn
Verb
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- To kneel and touch the forehead to the ground in expression of deep respect, worship, or submission, as formerly done in China.
- To show servile deference.
- The act of kneeling and touching the forehead to the ground.
- A small wheel or roller; a caster.
- To be servile or submissive.
- A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant.
- To be a toady to or behave like a toady.
- (idiomatic) To seek to gain favor by flattery or attention.
- To move with the body close to the ground, as on hands and knees.
- To move stealthily or cautiously.
- To move or proceed very slowly:
- To go down or rest on one or both knees.
- To bend forward and down from the waist or the middle of the back:
- To stand or walk, especially habitually, with the head and upper back bent forward.
- To lower or debase oneself:
- The front section of a ship or boat.
- Either of the sides of this front section:
- The oar or the person wielding the oar closest to the bow in a racing shell.
- To stoop, especially with the knees bent:
- To press the entire body close to the ground with the limbs bent:
- To bend servilely or timidly; cringe.
- To behave in a servile or obsequious manner.
- To lie or creep in a prostrate position, as in subservience or humility.
- To give oneself over to base pleasures:
- An extent of open ground partially or completely enclosed by walls or buildings; a courtyard.
- A short street, especially a wide alley walled by buildings on three sides.
- A large open section of a building, often with a glass roof or skylight.
- To compliment excessively and often insincerely, especially in order to win favor.
- To please or gratify the vanity of:
- To portray favorably:
- To shrink back, as in fear; cower.
- To behave in a servile way; fawn.
- An act or instance of cringing.
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