Fawner: alternatives and connections

One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.

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An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.

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An informer; a talebearer.

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A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.

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To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear.

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To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear.

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A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.

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A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.

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One who grovels; an abject wretch.

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One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.