[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fawn \fawn\, v. i. imp.  p. p. fawned; p. pr.  vb. n.
   fawning. oe. fawnen, fainen, fagnien, to rejoice,
   welcome, flatter, as. faegnian to rejoice; akin to icel.
   fagna to rejoice, welcome. see fain.
   to court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to
   flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon.
   1913 webster

         you showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like
         hounds.                                  --shak.
   1913 webster

         thou with trembling fear,
         or like a fawning parasite, obeyest.     --milton.
   1913 webster

         courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him.
                                                  --macaulay.
   1913 webster
see also:
fawned fawning fain 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

fawning
     adj : attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
           syn: bootlicking, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish
see also:
bootlicking obsequious sycophantic toadyish 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

111 moby thesaurus words for "fawning":
   abject, adulation, adulatory, apple-polishing, ass-kissing,
   backscratching, beggarly, bland, blandishing, blandishment,
   blarney, blarneying, bootlicking, brown-nosing, bunkum, buttery,
   cajolement, cajolery, cajoling, compliant, compliment,
   complimentary, courtierly, courtly, cowering, crawling, cringing,
   crouching, deferential, envious, eyewash, fair words, fair-spoken,
   fawnery, fine-spoken, flattering, flattery, flunkyism, footlicking,
   fulsome, grease, groveling, gushing, handshaking, hangdog,
   honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, honeyed phrases,
   honeyed words, humble, ignoble, incense, ingratiating,
   ingratiation, insincere, insinuating, insinuation, kowtowing,
   mealy-mouthed, mealymouthed, mealymouthedness, mean, obeisance,
   obeisant, obsequious, obsequiousness, oil, oily, oily-tongued,
   on bended knee, palaver, parasitic, parasitism, praise,
   pretty lies, prostrate, prostration, servile, slavish, slimy,
   slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, sniveling,
   soap, soapy, soft soap, soft-soaping, spineless, sponging,
   submissive, subservient, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words,
   sycophancy, sycophant, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating,
   toadying, toadyish, toadyism, truckling, tufthunting, unctuous,
   wheedling, yielding

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