From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpansypan‧sy /ˈpænzi/ noun (plural pansies) [countable] 1 HBPa small garden plant with brightly coloured flowers2 informal not politeINSULT an offensive word for a man who seems weak and too much like a woman
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pansy• At Easter, decorate with chocolate eggs, crystallized flower petals, or fresh primroses and pansies.• Left: Universal winter-flowering pansies are indispensable for adding colour splashes during the bleakest months of winter.• But the winter container's secret weapon, planted in layers under showy pansies or polyanthus, is the spring-flowering bulb.• There was a healthy pink petunia, a shy violet pansy and the promise of a fuchsia.• They asked her what the foreman said when she painted five chairs all over with roses and painted the sixth with pansies.Origin pansy (1400-1500) French pensée, from pensée “thought” 