Verb (used without object) : The courtiers fawned over the king. From Dictionary.com.
Alex, I've fawned over Palin and Althouse, Sir, is no fawner by comparison. From Wordnik.com. [A big crowd in Cedarburg, Wisconsin for McCain and Palin today.] Reference
"Alex, I've fawned over Palin and Althouse, Sir, is no fawner by comparison.". From Wordnik.com. [A big crowd in Cedarburg, Wisconsin for McCain and Palin today.] Reference
As such persons were usually cringing and fawning, and looked for a reward, the word came to be used also to denote a fawner or flatterer. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
So we met to do him honor; worshipper and eager fawner begged a tassel of his whiskers, or his autograph in ink; never was there so much sighin 'round a pallid human lion, as he stood his lines explaining, taking out the hitch and kink!. From Wordnik.com. [Rippling Rhymes] Reference
While poor excommunicated Miss Tox, who, if she were a fawner and toad – eater, was at least an honest and a constant one, and had ever borne a faithful friendship towards her impeacher and had been truly absorbed and swallowed up in devotion to the magnificence of Mr. From Wordnik.com. [Dombey and Son] Reference
Consequently, not being a fool or a fawner, he has come to acknowledge his patronage by virtually saying: 'Let me alone. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference
Consequently, not being a fool or a fawner, he has come to acknowledge his patronage by virtually saying: ` ` Let me alone. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference
From what I gather, I'm a "yes man, flunky, fawner and flatterer," as I'm sure so many athletes in L.A. would also tell you. From Wordnik.com. [Sports Media News] Reference
Go find me some sycophant to interview me, if you can't find one get a flunky, yes man or fawner to drool around me, said Obama to his staff. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
He was a sneak, a spy, a coward, a demagogue, a parasite, a lickspittle, a fawner upon all from whom he hoped help, a slanderer of all who did not care to endure his society. From Wordnik.com. [James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters] Reference
While poor excommunicated Miss Tox, who, if she were a fawner and toad-eater, was at least an honest and a constant one, and had ever borne a faithful friendship towards her impeacher and had been truly absorbed and swallowed up in devotion to the magnificence of Mr. From Wordnik.com. [Dombey and Son] Reference
It is, therefore, needlefs to enter into any fawner de - tail of the particular tranfa&ions in which this gentleman was concerned, it being fufficient to fay, that he acquitted 'himfelf, on all occafions, with the higheft credit, and to the rood perfeS fatisfaftion of his friend and admiral. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia navalis; or, Impartial memoirs of the lives and characters of officers of the navy of Great Britain, from the year 1660 to the present time; drawn from the most authentic sources, and disposed in a chronological arrangement] Reference
Tom’s hired service and in which he was determined to persevere, set him down at once for a deceitful, servile, miserable fawner. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
Immediately Vakker, the fawner, arose and, with a smirk, remarked: "It's common talk that Lyubimov can't hold a can dIe to Zhukovsky. From Wordnik.com. [My Life]
He loved Minnesota’s flora and fauna and seemed ill-suited as either a fawner or a floorer, a creep or a bruiser, into which categories most ambitious politicians fall. From Wordnik.com. [Mister Available] Reference
Nobody is a bigger Palin-fawner then me. From Wordnik.com. [A big crowd in Cedarburg, Wisconsin for McCain and Palin today.] Reference
Yet there was none of the sycophant or fawner in. From Wordnik.com. [The People That Time Forgot] Reference
Are you a failure fawner?. From Wordnik.com. Reference
At what point in America’s history did we become Isreal’s ass-kisser, sycophant, toady, apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, hanger-on, pawn, attendant, tool, instrument, cohort, valet, menial, minion, footman, yes-man, manservant, flunky, brown-noser, flatterer, groveler?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Nashville residents of all faiths pledge support for local Muslims after hate crime vandalism.] Reference
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