Pan"sy (?), n.; pl. Pansies (#). [F. Pensée thought, pansy, fr. penser to think, L. pensare to weigh, ponder. See Pensive.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names.

• Common name for a cultivated flowering plant, Viola tricolor hortensis, derived from heartsease; many garden varieties are hybrids.
  
• (colour) a deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
       pansy colour:   
  
• (Slang) a timid man or boy considered unassertive.
  
• wimpy; spineless; feeble -- see frodo
  
• (colour) of a deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.