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▪ I. ˈpensy, a. Now Sc. and dial.
[f. OF. pensif, in nom. sing. and pl. pensis; cf. hasty, jolly, tardy.]
1. = pensive.
a1400–50Alexander 2990 With princez in hys palays all pensey [v.r. pense] he sittes. c1440Alph. Tales 80 Or he passyd any forther or made ane ende, he began to wax hevy & pensie for þis thoght. 1831J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. xxix. (1856) III. 177 It's an inspirin retreat..for the inditin o' a bit cheerfu' or pensie sang! 1876Whitehead Daft Davie, etc. 270 Her that was now so quiet and pensy.
2. a. Giving oneself airs, self-conceited. b. Spruce, neat.
1715Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. ii. ix, Furth started neist a pensy blade. a1806in Jamieson's Pop. Ball. I. 292 There, couthie, and pensie, and sicker, Wonn'd honest young Hab o' the Heuch. 1830J. McDiarmid Sk. Nat., Jeanie Deans 382 Many of the neighbours regarded her [Helen Walker] as ‘a little pensy body’—that is, conceited or proud.
3. a. Fretful, peevish (of children). b. Fastidious (of appetite).
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Pensy, fretful; uneasy. Chiefly applied to wayward children. 1866N. & Q. 3rd Ser. X. 67/1 Another person, speaking of a little dog that has been much petted, says ‘he is so pensy, he will not touch new milk’. 1893in Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk 99 She is a poor ‘pensey little thing’.
▪ II. pensy, pensyful, pensyl, -syll
obs. ff. pansy, pensiful, pencil, pencel. |