fawner
(ˈfɔːnə(r))
[f. fawn v.1 + -er1.]
One who fawns, cringes, or flatters; a toady.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 146/1 Faynare, or flaterere, adulator. 1553 T. Wilson Rhet. 106 b, Flatterers, fawners, and southers of mennes saiynges. 1685 Gracian's Courtiers Orac. 156 All the Fawners..are so many Monsters of impertinence. a 1715 Burnet Own Time (1766) I. 68 His diary..represents him as an abject fawner on the Duke of Buckingham. 1812 Southey Omniana II. 322 Certainly he was no fawner. 1864 E. Sargent Peculiar I. 289 He..began to play the fawner once more. |