Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To excessively praise in order to get a favor
Usage examples of "fawn over".
She was no mere girl, she told herself, to fawn over a lovesome face, but something about the man truly had caught her attention and she considered him more than she should, wondered what he thought both of her and her court.
If this skirt wants to see me alone, would you take Fawn over to your tent for a while?
He could have gone to a tavern where he would have had a better dinner and the ale wouldn't have left an aftertaste of wash water in his mouth, but he would have had to smile and fawn over the Blood aristos that crowded a place like that.
Judith kept a firm hand on the wine cup she and Baldwin shared, making sure he did not drink too much, but she did not fawn over him or pay him an unseemly amount of attention.
They would bow to him then, fawn over him, give him the riches he deserved.
Perrin did not think he had ever seen Two Rivers folk fawn over anybody, but these came close.
I'm not interested in having villagers fawn over me unless there's a take to be had.