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Fawn is a light yellowish tan colour. It is usually used in reference to clothing, soft furnishings and bedding, as well as to a dog 's coat colour. It occurs in varying shades, ranging between pale tan to pale fawn to dark deer-red.
The meaning in English has changed over time, however, and came to mean an insincere flatterer. The common thread in the older and current meanings is that the sycophant is in both instances portrayed as a kind of parasite, speaking falsely and insincerely in the accusation or the flattery for gain.
The fight-or-flight or the fight-flight-freeze-or-fawn [1] (also called hyperarousal or the acute stress response) is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival. [2] It was first described by Walter Bradford Cannon in 1915.
A maenad with a nebris (and a thyrsus) Maenad with a Nebris. Nebris (νεβρίς; or nebride, from νεβρός, ‘fawn’) is a fawn skin, similar to an aegis, originally worn as a hunter's clothing item and later attributed to Dionysus (Euripides, Le Baccanti, 99, 125, 157, 790; Aristophanes, Le rane, 1209; Dionigi il Periegeta, 702, 946; Rufo Festo Avieno, 1.129).
It doesn’t mean the fix was in for the Chiefs — who may have gotten some nice calls but also made so many critical plays down the stretch to win again. ... Their happiness is built on fawning ...
They lower the thyrsus to the earth, and a spring of wine bubbles up. If they want milk, they scratch up the ground with their fingers and draw up the milky fluid. Honey trickles down from the thyrsus made of the wood of the ivy, they gird themselves with snakes and give suck to fawns and wolf cubs as if they were infants at the breast.
A social climber is a derogatory term that denotes someone who seeks social prominence through aggressive, fawning, or obsequious behavior. [1] The term is sometimes used as synonymous with parvenu, and may be used as an insult, suggesting a poor work ethic or disloyalty to roots.
Oisín (pronounced [əˈʃiːnʲ, ˈɔʃiːnʲ], approximately USH-een) is an Irish male given name; meaning "fawn" or "little deer", derived from the Irish word os ("deer") + -ín (diminutive suffix). It is sometimes anglicized as Osheen (/ ɒ ˈ ʃ iː n / OSH-een) or spelt without the acute accent (fada), as Oisin.