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

• fawney

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Middle English

Etymology

Latin Faunī.

Noun

fawny

1. plural of fawn