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Panicsville

name

Etymology

From panic + -s- + -ville.

  1. derived from *(s)penh₁-✻ — “to twist; to weave”
  2. derived from *peh₂-✻ — “to graze; to protect; to shepherd”
  3. derived from pānicum
  4. inherited from panik
  5. formed as panicsville — “panic + -s- + -ville”

Definitions

  1. A state of panic.

    • “Here's a guy who's won countless awards,” wrote the publicist, “is a world-wide star and he's in panicsville, because his show may be cancelled […].”
    • “If I may comment, Brian goes through Panicsville every time a new record is released,” his mother said during an interview the band gave in 1965.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of Panicsville.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA