pansy

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

pansy (plural pansies)

1. A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor.
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.

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

pansy (not comparable)

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

• wild pansy
• pansified
• pansification

pansy (third-person singular simple present pansies, present participle pansying, simple past and past participle pansied)

1. (slang, intransitive, usually with "around" or "about") To mess about; to fail to get things done.

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