pansy

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English

Etymology

From the French pensée (“thought”), as the plant resembles someone that is in deep thought, with a lowered head.

Noun

pansy (plural pansies)

1. Common name for a cultivated flowering plant, Viola tricolor hortensis, derived from heartsease; many garden varieties are hybrids.
2. A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.

   pansy colour:

3. (derogatory, colloquial, dated) A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
4. (derogatory, colloquial) A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss.

Synonyms

• A timid man or boy: mama's boy, nancy boy, sissy

Translations

plant

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三色堇 (cmn) (sānsèjǐn)

• Czech: maceška (cs) f
• Finnish: orvokki (fi), tarhaorvokki (fi)
• French: pensée (fr) f
• German: Stiefmütterchen (de) n
• Greek: πανσές (el) (pansés) m 
• Italian: pansé (it)

• Japanese: パンジー (ja) (panjī), 三色菫 (ja) (さんしきすみれ, sanshikisumire)
• Jèrriais: pensée f, des faches dé cat f pl
• Polish: bratek (pl) m
• Portuguese: amor-perfeito (pt) m
• Romanian: pansea (ro) f, panseluță (ro) f
• Russian: анютины глазки (ru) (anjútiny glázki) m pl 
• Spanish: pensamiento (es) m
• Swedish: pensé (sv)

colour

• Russian:фиолетовый (ru) (fiolétovyj) 

Adjective

pansy (not comparable)

1. Wimpy; spineless; feeble.
2. Of a deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.

Translations

colour

Derived terms

• wild pansy
• pansified
• pansification

See also

• heartease
• Johnny-jump-up
• Appendix:Colors