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fawn
(redirected from fawned)

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Encyclopedia, Hutchinson 0.07 sec.
fawn (all) over someone
Fig. to flatter someone or attend to someone excessively; to curry favor with someone. Please stop fawning all over the guests. You are embarrassing me. She always fawns over us when we visit.

fawn (up)on someone

Fig. to praise and flatter someone. Aunt Mabel fawned on the new baby till the poor child was rescued by her mother. I hate the way our aunts fawn on us at family gatherings.


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