Reverse Dictionary: FAWN

ADJECTIVES
► INHOLDING selfish; fawning, cringing, given to flattery → 1871 Sc.
► LICK-LIP fawning, wheedling → 1854 Sc.
► LICK-MA- DOWP obsequious, fawning → 1724 Sc.
► MIRDING coaxing, fawning → 1868 Sc.  
► OBSEQUIOUS unduly or servilely compliant; ignobly submissive; manifesting or characterized by servile complaisance; fawning, cringing, sycophantic → 1602
► OLEAGINOUS ‘smooth’ in behaviour or in speech; subservient, compliant,; bland, soothing, insinuating, fawning → 1859
► QUEEVERLY fawning; hypocritical → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SMOOTH-BOOTED flattering, fawning, soft-spoken → 1706 obs.

NOUNS
► BOOT a fawning or subservient action or remark; an effort to curry favour → 1908 Amer. dial.
► FAWN an act of fawning; a servile cringe, a wheedling courtesy → 1590 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BOOTKISSER a flattering, fawning, obsequious person; a toady → 1966 Amer. dial.
► BOOTLICK a flattering, fawning, obsequious person; a toady, a sycophant; one who tries to curry favour → 1849 Amer. dial.
► COGGER a false flatterer or fawner → 1611
► CRINGELING a cringing creature; a servile flatterer; a fawner → a1693
► LICKSPIT a contemptible, fawning person; a servile flatterer or toady → 1620
► LICK-SPITTLE a mean or abject parasite, sycophant, or toady; a servile flatterer; a contemptible, detestable, or fawning person → 1796
► PLEASE-MAN one who tries to please men; an officious or servile person who courts favour; a sycophantic and servile fawner → 1588 obs.
► QUEEMER a toady, a sycophant, a fawning person → 1880 Sc.
► SPANIEL a submissive, cringing, or fawning person → 1598
► TOAD-EATER a fawning flatterer; a parasite, a sycophant, a toady → 1742

VERBS
► BAUM to fawn upon; to flatter; to curry favour → 1851 US sl.
► BEENGE to cringe, to fawn → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BINGE to sneak, to cringe; to fawn; to bow → 1911 Sc.  (Bk.)
► BUM CRAWL to be servile and fawning → 1996 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► CRUDLE to coax, fawn, or cringe; to shrink or cower with cold, fear, or pain → 1891 Eng. dial.  (Bk.)
► FAFF ► FEFF to flatter; to fawn, to play the hypocrite → 1898 Eng. dial.
► FEFNICUTE to fawn, to play the hypocrite; to speak fair to a person, but revile him to others → 19C Eng. dial.
► GLAVER to fawn, to flatter, to deceive with flattery → c1400
► GREASE to flatter, to wheedle, to fawn upon  → 1877 Eng. dial.
► MIRD to make amorous advances; to coax, to fawn upon one → 1829 Sc.  
► PAINT to talk speciously; to feign; to fawn; to flatter or deceive with specious words → c1430 obs.
► PENNY-DOG to follow persistently; to fawn on; to pester; to toady, to curry favour → 1914 Amer. dial.
► PENNY-FEIST to follow persistently; to fawn on; to pester; to toady, to curry favour → 1939 Amer. dial.
► SMEKE to flatter, to fawn → c1440 obs.
► SMOODGE  ► SMOOGE to act in an ingratiating or fawning manner; to display affection; to behave amorously → 1906 Aust. & NZ colloq.
► SPANIELIZE ► SPANIELIZE IT ► SPANNIOLIZE ► SPANNIOLIZE IT to act like a spaniel; to be submissive or fawning → 1641
► TOAD-EAT to flatter, to fawn upon a person; to toady → 1766
► USE THE GREASE-POT to flatter, to curry favour, to fawn → 1896 Eng. dial.