花
這一支就是核心畫面本身：盆栽和花壇裡那朵扁扁的、有深色斑紋的花。
noun · B2
A small garden plant with wide, flat, brightly coloured flowers, often with a dark mark in the middle that makes each flower look a little like a face.
三色堇
核心畫面
Start with the flower, because everything else in this entry is attached to it. A pansy is low, wide and soft: five rounded , strong colour, a dark mark in the middle that reads like a small face with its head tipped down. It is planted in pots and window boxes, and it flowers in cold months when little else does. Hold that picture of something delicate and pretty and close to the ground, because English later took the same word and threw it at men it wanted to call soft — which tells you about the speakers, not about the plant.
可以從花開始，因為這個字的其他用法都掛在它身上。三色堇長得矮、花瓣寬、質地軟：五片圓圓的花瓣，顏色很濃，中間一塊深色…更多收起
可以從花開始，因為這個字的其他用法都掛在它身上。三色堇長得矮、花瓣寬、質地軟：五片圓圓的花瓣，顏色很濃，中間一塊深色斑紋，看起來像一張低著頭的小臉。它種在盆子和窗台上，在其他花都不開的冷天裡開。把「嬌嫩、漂亮、貼著地面」這個畫面記住，因為英文後來把同一個字拿去罵被認為軟弱的男性——那說的是講話的人，不是這種花。From the word’s history
Recorded as coming from Middle French pensee, 'thought', because the flower hangs its head like someone deep in thought; it is a doublet of pensee in English.
依據來源，這個字來自中古法文 pensée（想法）：因為這種花低著頭，像一個人在沉思。英文裡 pensée 也被借了進來，跟 pansy 是同一條來源。這正好解釋了核心畫面裡「低頭的小臉」。
Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:749917539:31746): 'From Middle French pensee (thought), as the plant resembles someone that is in deep thought, with a lowered head. Doublet of pensee.'
Two branches
拿花來罵人
這是一條聯想，不是植物學上的關係：一朵被視為嬌弱、漂亮的花，被拿來貶低被認為不夠強硬的男性。連結成立的前提是一種偏見，而不是花的性質。
noun · C1
An insulting word for a man or a boy, used to say that he is weak, soft or easily frightened, and that he is not behaving the way the speaker thinks a man should. In older use it was also a slur for a gay man, especially one the speaker saw as effeminate.
娘娘腔（冒犯語）