pansyish

comparative more pansyish · superlative most pansyish

1. colloquialderogatoryOf a man: effeminate, weak, wussy.

   Conor was also pansyish and into music and theatre. At last I would have a genuine friend there; someone I had something in common with. My wallflower days were over!

   2019, Malcolm McLean, Freak Like Me

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   Jocelyn Brooke's brilliant, semi-autobiographical The Military Orchid deals with the author's sensitive, precocious, pansyish childhood, defined largely by the pursuit of exotic orchids and addiction to fireworks.

   2010, Peter Holbrook, Shakespeare's Individualism, page 232