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panicky

adj
/ˈpænɪki/

Etymology

From panic + -y.

  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 panicky — “panic + -y”

Definitions

  1. In a state of panic.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at panicky. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01panicky02panic03fear04induced05happen06befall07overtake08surprise09alarmed

A definitional loop anchored at panicky. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at panicky

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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