"fawning" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Rhymes: -ɔːnɪŋ Head templates: {{en-adj|?}} fawning
  1. Seeking favor by way of flattery; flattering, servile. Derived forms: fawningly, fawningness Translations (seeking favor by way of flattery): раболепен (rabolepen) (Bulgarian), podlézavý [masculine] (Czech), adulador (Galician), afagador (Galician), schmeichelnd (German), unterwürfig (German), kriecherisch (German), adulatore (Italian), blandus (Latin), aduladôr (Romagnol), adulatôr (Romagnol)
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Noun [English]

Forms: fawnings [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔːnɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun}} fawning (plural fawnings)
  1. Servile flattery. Translations (servile flattery): κολακεία (kolakeía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), раболепие (rabolepie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), podlézavost [feminine] (Czech), podlézání [neuter] (Czech), adulación [feminine] (Galician), Schmeichelei [feminine] (German), fawnynge (Middle English)
    Sense id: en-fawning-en-noun-Mc3d~bDH

Verb [English]

Rhymes: -ɔːnɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} fawning
  1. present participle and gerund of fawn Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: fawn
    Sense id: en-fawning-en-verb-xEAuKF5w

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