fawny
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Etymology 1
Adjective
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
From Irish fáinne (“ring”). Doublet of fainne.
Noun
fawny (plural fawnies)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A finger ring.
Alternative forms
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
Etymology
Noun
fawny
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