fawny
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
fawny (comparative more fawny, superlative most fawny)
- Somewhat fawn in colour.
- 1822, Philip Stansbury, A Pedestrian Tour of Two Thousand Three Hundred Miles in North America:
- The people thus afflicted cried out, that they saw their tormentors though invisible to every body else, in the shape of a little devil of a fawny colour, attended with spectres that had something more human in their forms.
Etymology 2 edit
Irish fáinne (“ring”). Doublet of fainne.
Noun edit
fawny (plural fawnies)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A finger ring.
Alternative forms edit
References edit
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
fawny