1. small garden flowers with flat, colorful petals that often have a face-like pattern
Usage: plural of pansy
2. weak or effeminate men
Usage: offensive; derogatory

Examples

• She planted purple and yellow pansies in the window box.
• The garden was filled with colorful pansies blooming in spring.
• Pansies can survive light frost better than most flowers.
• The children thought the pansies looked like little faces smiling at them.
• We bought a flat of pansies to plant around the mailbox.