fawn over

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fawn over

verb fawns over · fawning over · fawned over

  1. transitive To praise excessively in order to get a favor.

    Similar: butter up, kiss up, toady, apple-polish, bootlick, bow and scrape, brown-nose, dickride, duchess, fawn, fawn over, fellate

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verb praise excessively to get a favor

Españoladular a, lisonjear a
Portuguêsbajular, puxar saco, fazer média, rasgar seda
Deutschhofieren, umschmeicheln, mit Lob überschütten
Ελληνικάγλείφω gleífo

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@misc{fawn_over_2026,
  title = {fawn over},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fawn%20over},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}