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Pansy
//ˈpæn.zi// adj, name, noun, verb, slang
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Wimpy; spineless; feeble. not-comparable
- 2 Of a deep purple colour, like that of the pansy. not-comparable
Proper Noun
- 1 A female given name.
Noun
- 1 A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor.
"The Daughters of the Flood have ſearch'd the Mead / For Violets pale, and cropt the Poppy's Head: / The Short Narciſſus and fair Daffodil, / Pancies to pleaſe the Sight, and Caſſia ſvveet to ſmell: […]"
- 2 offensive term for a homosexual man wordnet
- 3 A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
- 4 a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive wordnet
- 5 Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Junonia.
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- 6 large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors wordnet
- 7 A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss. colloquial, derogatory
- 8 A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate. colloquial, dated, derogatory
Verb
- 1 To mess about; to fail to get things done. intransitive, slang, usually
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle French pensée (“thought”), as the plant resembles someone that is in deep thought, with a lowered head. Doublet of pensée.
Etymology 2
From Middle French pensée (“thought”), as the plant resembles someone that is in deep thought, with a lowered head. Doublet of pensée.
Etymology 3
From Middle French pensée (“thought”), as the plant resembles someone that is in deep thought, with a lowered head. Doublet of pensée.
Etymology 4
From pansy (“type of flower”).
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