fawnlock
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A subgenre of Sherlock fan fiction and fanart portraying Sherlock Holmes as an anthropomorphic deer-like creature.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Certainly it would be hard to guess why individuals dressed as humanoid woodland animals would be at a Holmes convention if you weren’t familiar with Fawnlock stories and art, in an Alternate Universe where Sherlock is a deer-like creature with antlers and fur."
- "One of my oldest informants, adagio, confirms this in an e-mail interview and admits to sometimes feeling as if fandom is deviating too far from the story told on the show: "I don‘t really see the point when the names is all that‘s left. I don‘t get things like fawnlock or tunalock at all, but I guess it‘s amusing. … Sometimes I think the internet has made it too easy to publish stories.""
- "Sometimes the thematically focused groups are a clear subset of shippers, such as teenlock, femlock, vamplock, or fawnlock (respectively describing John Watson/Sherlock Holmes as teens, women, vampires, or young deer)."
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Inflected Forms
faunlock (alternative)