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fawny

fawny adjective: somewhat fawn in colour.

Adjective

fawny (comparative more fawny, superlative most fawny)

  1. Somewhat fawn in colour.
    • The people thus afflicted cried out, that they saw their tormentors though invisible to every body else, in the shape of a little devil of a fawny colour, attended with spectres that had something more human in their forms.1822, Philip Stansbury, A Pedestrian Tour of Two Thousand Three Hundred Miles in North America

Noun

fawny (plural fawnies)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A finger ring.

Forms of fawny

Adjective
comparativemore fawny
superlativemost fawny
Noun
pluralfawnies
alternative formfawney

Origin of fawny

From fawn + -y.

From Irish fáinne (“ring”). Doublet of fainne.

Questions about fawny

What does fawny mean?
Fawny means somewhat fawn in colour.
What part of speech is fawny?
Fawny can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near fawny in the dictionary

  1. fawns
  2. fawns over
  3. fawnsfoot
  4. fawnskin
  5. fawnskins
  6. fawny
  7. faws
  8. Fawthrop
  9. Fawthrops
  10. Fawver
  11. Fawvers

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