pansys

noun

1. a female given name.

noun plural -sies

1. any violaceous garden plant that is a variety of Viola tricolor, having flowers with rounded velvety petals, white, yellow, or purple in colourSee also wild pansy
2. slang, offensive an effeminate or homosexual man or boy
3. 1. a strong violet colour
   2. (as adjective)a pansy carpet

n.mid-15c., from Middle French pensée “a pansy,” literally “thought, remembrance,” from fem. past participle of penser “to think,” from Latin pensare “consider,” frequentative of pendere “to weigh” (see pensive). So called because it was regarded as a symbol of thought or remembrance. Meaning “effeminate homosexual man” is first recorded 1929.