fawny

English

Etymology 1

From fawn +‎ -y.

Adjective

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.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

fawny (plural fawnies)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A finger ring.
Alternative forms
References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Middle English

Etymology

Latin Faunī.

Noun

fawny

  1. plural of fawn
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