fawns

• abases
• adulates
• apple-polishes
• blandishes
• bootlicks
• cajoles
• coaxes
• courts
• cowers
• cringes
• curries favor
• debases
• defers
• demeans
• drools
• endears
• flatters
• fusses
• grovels
• gushes
• idolizes
• ingratiates
• kisses up to
• kowtows
• overpraises
• slavers
• slobbers
• soft-soaps
• submits
• toadies
• truckles
• woos
• worships
• yields

• braves
• challenges
• defies
• despises
• disdains
• gibes
• jeers
• jibes
• scoffs
• scorns

• noun
  1. A young deer.
  2. A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
  3. The young of an animal; a whelp.
  4. A servile cringe or bow.
  5. Base flattery.
• verb
  1. To give birth to a fawn.
  2. To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
  3. To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon).
  4. (of a dog) To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.

• The forest was filled with fawns playing near their mothers.
• Every spring, the mother deer carefully watches over her fawns.
• Hunters are advised to avoid areas where fawns are present.
• The photographer captured beautiful images of fawns in the wild.
• The fawns stayed hidden in the tall grass to stay safe from predators.

quails

effuses

• drools
• emotes
• enthuses
• fawns
• fusses
• gushes
• raves
• rhapsodizes
• slobbers

kisses up to

raves

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