Fawner

The man's chest and shoulders were magnificent, but the stump of a right arm, beyond the flesh of which the age-whitened bone projected several inches, attested the encounter with a shark that had put an end to his diving days and made him a fawner and an intriguer for small favors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Alex, I've fawned over Palin and Althouse, Sir, is no fawner by comparison. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

"Alex, I've fawned over Palin and Althouse, Sir, is no fawner by comparison." ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

While poor excommunicated Miss Tox, who, if she were a fawner and toad – eater, was at least an honest and a constant one, and had ever borne a faithful friendship towards her impeacher and had been truly absorbed and swallowed up in devotion to the magnificence of Mr ❋ Unknown (2007)

There is no such fawner on the aristocracy, if he has but a chance of getting any thing out of them, as a _parvenu_ by birth, a liberal in politics, and an Independent by "_religious persuasion_." ❋ Various (N/A)

So we met to do him honor; worshipper and eager fawner begged a tassel of his whiskers, or his autograph in ink; never was there so much sighin 'round a pallid human lion, as he stood his lines explaining, taking out the hitch and kink! ❋ Walt Mason (N/A)

He pictured him as either a bit of a fawner, who would cringe through the year, or a keen-headed business man, who would go through it with a steel-trap mouth, and an eye to every weakness in his fellow-workers. ❋ Leslie Moore (N/A)

As such persons were usually cringing and fawning, and looked for a reward, the word came to be used also to denote a fawner or flatterer. ❋ Unknown (1949)

He was a sneak, a spy, a coward, a demagogue, a parasite, a lickspittle, a fawner upon all from whom he hoped help, a slanderer of all who did not care to endure his society. ❋ Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1876)

Consequently, not being a fool or a fawner, he has come to acknowledge his patronage by virtually saying: ` ` Let me alone. ❋ Unknown (1861)

Consequently, not being a fool or a fawner, he has come to acknowledge his patronage by virtually saying: 'Let me alone. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

While poor excommunicated Miss Tox, who, if she were a fawner and toad-eater, was at least an honest and a constant one, and had ever borne a faithful friendship towards her impeacher and had been truly absorbed and swallowed up in devotion to the magnificence of Mr ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

The old man, disgusted by what in his suspicious nature he considered a shameless and fulsome puff of Mr Pecksniff, which was a part of Tom's hired service and in which he was determined to persevere, set him down at once for a deceitful, servile, miserable fawner. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

The sanction of "the Ten," [424] a council-fawner, ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)

Go find me some sycophant to interview me, if you can't find one get a flunky, yes man or fawner to drool around me, said Obama to his staff. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From what I gather, I'm a "yes man, flunky, fawner and flatterer," as I'm sure so many athletes in L.A. would also tell you. ❋ Unknown (2008)