Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Wimpy; spineless; feeble. · Of a deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor. · A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy. · Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Junonia. · A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss.
To mess about; to fail to get things done.
From Middle French pensée (“thought”), as the plant resembles someone that is in deep thought, with a lowered head. Doublet of pensée.
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