fawnlike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

fawn +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

fawnlike (comparative more fawnlike, superlative most fawnlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a fawn.
    • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XVIII. The Fête.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. [], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, [], →OCLC, page 136:
      Miss Walpole was a soft, sleepy-looking beauty, with a pretty, startled, fawnlike look in her large eyes; shy, silent, and with gathered blushes of two summers on her cheek: but, if she had few words, she had a great many smiles, and of these Lord Townshend had the entire benefit.