fawning

fawning
adj
1. servile, slavish, obsequious, Obs. obsequent, subservient, menial, Obs., Rare. vernile; submissive, docile, unassertive, compliant, acquiescent, deferential, Tomish, Uncle Tomish, tractable, mealy-mouthed; groveling, crawling, creeping, slithering; kowtowing, crouching, stooping, bowing, bowing and scraping; whining, whimpering, sniveling.
2. sycophantic, sycophantical, sycophantish, toady-ish, toadying, toadeating, flattering, truckling, wheedling, ingratiating, timeserving, Sl. bootlicking, Sl. footlicking, Inf. apple-polishing, Sl. brown-nosing, Obs. blanding, Obs., Rare. blandiloquous; buttery, candied, unctuous, oily, honey-mouthed, smooth-talking, sweet-talking, smooth-tongued, Rare. blandilo- quent.
n
3. servility, servileness, slavishness, obsequiousness, obsequence, subservience, Obs. vernility; sub-missiveness, docility, unassertiveness, compliance, acquiescence, deference, tractability, tractableness, Tomishness, Uncle Tomishness; prostration, obeisance, abjection, abjectness, self-abasement; groveling, crawling, creeping, slithering; kowtowing, crouching, bowing, bowing and scraping; squirming, cringing, cowering; whining, whimpering, sniveling.
4. sycophancy, sycophantism, toadyism, toadeating, tufthunting, lip-homage, mouth-honor, unctuousness, fawningness, flattery, Inf. butter, Inf. oil, Inf. honey, Sl. banana oil, Sl. goo, Rare. blandiloquence, Obs. blanding, Obs., Rare. blandation, Obs., Rare. blandil-oquy; truckling, Sl. falling all over, toadying, slavering, Inf. buttering, Inf. soaping, Inf. oiling, Inf. honeying, Inf. apple-polishing; All Sl. shining up to, sucking up to, playing up to, buttering-up, brown-nosing; courting, paying court to, currying favor, dancing attendance upon, licking [s.o.'s] shoes, kissing [s.o.'s] feet, Sl. bootlicking.
5. cajolery, wheedling, beguilement, beguiling, blandishment, blandishing, blarney, coaxing, palaver, palavering, Inf. soft soap, Inf. sweet talk, Inf. honeyed words, Sl. line, Sl. snow job, Archaic. gloze; humoring, jollying, pampering, coddling, petting, pandering to, catering to, Inf. stroking.

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  • fawning — index obsequious, servile, subservient Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • fawning — [adj] deferential, groveling abject, adulatory, bootlicking*, bowing, brownnosing*, compliant, cowering, crawling, cringing, flattering, humble, ingratiating, kowtowing*, mealy mouthed*, obsequious, parasitic, prostrate, scraping, servile,… …   New thesaurus

  • Fawning — Fawn Fawn, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fawned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fawning}.] [OE. fawnen, fainen, fagnien, to rejoice, welcome, flatter, AS. f[ae]gnian to rejoice; akin to Icel. fagna to rejoice, welcome. See {Fain}.] To court favor by low cringing,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • fawning — adjective her fawning personal staff Syn: obsequious, servile, sycophantic, flattering, ingratiating, unctuous, oleaginous, groveling, crawling; informal bootlicking, smarmy, sucky, brown nosing, toadying …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • fawning — /ˈfɔnɪŋ/ (say fawning) adjective obsequious. –fawningly, adverb …  

  • fawning — Ⅰ. fawn [1] ► NOUN 1) a young deer in its first year. 2) a light brown colour. ORIGIN Old French faon, from Latin fetus offspring . Ⅱ. fawn [2] ► VERB …   English terms dictionary

  • fawning — Synonyms and related words: abject, adulation, adulatory, apple polishing, ass kissing, backscratching, beggarly, bland, blandishing, blandishment, blarney, blarneying, bootlicking, brown nosing, bunkum, buttery, cajolement, cajolery, cajoling,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • fawning — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. sniveling, adulatory, flattering; see obsequious . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. servile, sycophantic, deferential, slavish, groveling, subservient, cringing, flattering, *brownnosing, kowtowing, submissive,… …   English dictionary for students

  • fawning — sb. == flattery, deceit. Wright’s L. P. p. 23 …   Oldest English Words

  • fawning — fawn·ing || fɔːnɪŋ adj. bootlicking, flattering, acting in a servile manner in order to gain favor fɔːn n. baby deer; soft light brown color v. lavish affection upon; flatter, act in a servile manner in order to gain favor adj. pale… …   English contemporary dictionary

  • fawning — n. Sycophancy, servility, cringing, mean flattery …   New dictionary of synonyms

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