Meaning

1 senses

  1. (slang, usually)To mess about; to fail to get things done.

Examples

10 sentences

  1. She planted some pansies in the flower bed.

    deSie pflanzte mehrere Stiefmütterchen in das Beet. — xtofu80

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  2. She grows flowers such as tulips, pansies and daisies.

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  3. This is a pansy.

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  4. Tom loves pansies.

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  5. Why are soccer players sure pansies?

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Origin

From Middle French pensée (“thought”), as the plant resembles someone that is in deep thou

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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Forms

pansies, pansying, pansied, pansied
Base formpansy · to pansy
3rd person singularpansies
Present participlepansying
Past simplepansied
Past participlepansied

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypansy
he, she, itpansies

Past simpleLesson

all personspansied

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave pansied
he, she, ithas pansied

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pansy

Word family

1 related words
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Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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