panicky

See also: panický

English

Etymology

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English panic
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English panicky

    From panic + -y.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈpænɪki/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
    • Hyphenation: pan‧ic‧ky
    • Rhymes: -ænɪki, -ænɪːki

    Adjective

    panicky (comparative more panicky, superlative most panicky)

    1. In a state of panic.
      • 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
        At six feet the panicky thought rushed into my mind, What if he will not run? Why, then I shall club him, came the answer. In my fear I had forgotten that I was there to get the bull instead of to make him run. And just then he gave a snort and a snarl and rushed at me.
      • 2022 November 1, Polly Toynbee, “Rishi Sunak’s only been in office for a few days – and the errors are already piling up”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 October 2026:
        Banning the king from Cop27 looks clumsy. News that Sunak could make a U-turn dash to Egypt having learned that Johnson may go looks panicky.

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