fawnyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

fawny (comparative more fawny, superlative most fawny)

1. 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.

語源 2

From Irish fáinne (“ring”). Doublet of fainne.

名詞

fawny (plural fawnies)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A finger ring.

別の表記

• fawney

参照

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

名詞

fawny

1. plural of fawn