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Fawner

noun
1.
Someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect.  Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, groveler, groveller, truckler.






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"Fawner" Quotes from Famous Books



... work, and the machines that drove him at his work, were all toys in one little paper box, and he the baby who played with them, he could not have been discoursed to, more impertinently and absurdly than I have heard him discoursed to times innumerable. Consequently, not being a fool or a fawner, he has come to acknowledge his patronage by virtually saying: 'Let me alone. If you understand me no better than THAT, sir and madam, let me alone. You mean very well, I dare say, but I don't like it, and I won't come here again to have any ...
— The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens



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