fawny

adj, noun — 2 senses

adj

Etymology From fawn + -y.

Somewhat fawn in colour.

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.1822, Philip Stansbury, A Pedestrian Tour of Two Thousand Three Hundred Miles in North America:

noun

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

UK, Obsolete, Slang A finger ring.

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