pansy

[ UK /pˈænzi/ ]
[ US /ˈpænzi/ ]
NOUN
  1. large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors
  2. offensive term for a homosexual man
  3. a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
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How To Use pansy In A Sentence

  • I got to get my breath to talk, after walkin 'up the hill for to rest Sanky Pansy a bit, for the cart was powerful full this mornin', an 'he did have a load, an' he's gettin 'old an' has to be eased off a bit like myself, an 'I felt kind of blowed an' puffy-like. Uncle Rutherford's Nieces A Story for Girls
  • (There is a queercore musical band called Pansy Division, drawing on this association.) Hillary Endorser NC Gov Easley uses anti-Gay slur in Endorsement Speech
  • On the left upright a dove with olive branch, alluding to the Noah story, is enclosed in a trefoil representing the Holy Trinity, and on the right, in a cruciform shape, is a pansy, or heartsease, traditionally the flower of the Trinity.
  • Abutilons; agapanthus; alstremeria; amaryllis; anemone; aralia; araucaria; auricula; azaleas; begonias; cactus; caladium; calceolaria; calla; camellias; cannas; carnations; century plants; chrysanthemums; cineraria; clematis; coleus; crocus; croton; cyclamen; dahlia; ferns; freesia; fuchsia; geranium; gladiolus; gloxinia; grevillea; hollyhocks; hyacinths; iris; lily; lily-of-the-valley; mignonette; moon-flowers; narcissus; oleander; oxalis; palms; pandanus; pansy; pelargonium; peony; phlox; primulas; rhododendrons; rose; smilax; stocks; sweet pea; swainsona; tuberose; tulips; violet; wax plant. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
  • And don't you love the fact that another name for pansy is ‘love-in-idleness’?
  • Because if those gunless pansy liberalolawfascists thought they could get patched up after being shot by a patriot waging civil war in defence of the USA! The Coming Civil War
  • In this case, moving the funny-page content to a page formerly devoted to the news just might notch up the credulity paid to what would normally be considered standard WSH editorial right wing "hokum," to borrow a word from Li'l Abner's mammy, Pansy. Printing: Rove's Obama Hit-Job Re-Run Oozes Out of Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Section
  • Large-flowered modern varieties are the result of hybridising the wild pansy, viola tricolor, also known as love-in-idleness, kiss-me-quick and heartsease.
  • Some cruel ideas are like that - they refine logic to such a pure form that it's immune to counterarguments based in pansy concepts like compassion. Eliot Schrefer: What the Monster Wrote: How Will the College Board Grade a Well-Written Endorsement of Evil?
  • Semidouble wine frilled pansy. Variegated dark green, pink and tan , plain, heart - shaped , pointed. Large.
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