fawny
English
editEtymology 1
editAdjective
editfawny (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
editIrish fáinne (“ring”). Doublet of fainne.
Noun
editfawny (plural fawnies)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A finger ring.
Alternative forms
editReferences
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
Middle English
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