Synonyms for pansies
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pan-zee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpæn zi |
Top 10 synonyms for pansies Other synonyms for the word pansies
- big baby
- chicken heart
- chicken liver
- cream puff
- cry-baby
- fraidy-cat
- gutless wonder
- lightweight
- lily liver
- loser
- milksop
- Milquetoast
- mollycoddle
- momma's boy
- mother's darling
- namby-pamby
- pansy
- pantywaist
- puppy
- pushover
- quitter
- scaredy cat
- scaredy-cat
- schlemiel
- sissy
- softy
- teacher's pet
- weakling
- wimp
- wuss
- wussy
- yellow
- yellow belly
Définition of pansies
Origin :- 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.
- As in milksop : noun coward
- As in pantywaist : noun sissy
- As in sissy : noun weakling
- As in wimp : noun weakling
- As in : noun mother's boy
- In one of the largest of them, the wind had sown a wonderful basketful of pansies.
- Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
- In her hands was a cheap carpet-bag, covered with roses and pansies.
- Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
- "She is out of sight," he told the Rosebush and the Pansies.
- Extract from : « Sandman's Goodnight Stories » by Abbie Phillips Walker
- The pansies looked erect And scentless, wrapped in thought: by them, I stopped.
- Extract from : « Life Immovable » by Kostes Palamas
- Mrs. Clapp gave me six pansies, and it was going to be so pretty.
- Extract from : « Nine Little Goslings » by Susan Coolidge
- If a hyacinth droops in the celery bed, put it among the pansies.
- Extract from : « Happy Days » by Alan Alexander Milne
- Take as illustration the wings of butterflies or the many varieties of pansies.
- Extract from : « A Color Notation » by Albert H. Munsell
- Everything is sleeping, save only a single star, and the pansies.
- Extract from : « The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy » by John Galsworthy
- After he had inspected it his glance softened and he said quickly: "It's all pansies; it must be hers!"
- Extract from : « The Portrait of a Lady » by Henry James
- She appeared in the schoolroom with a bunch of pansies pinned into her belt.
- Extract from : « The Madcap of the School » by Angela Brazil
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