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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
panicky \pan"ick*y\ adjective Same as {panic-stricken}; as, the travellers became panicky as the snow deepened.
Syn: panic-stricken, panic-struck, petrified, terrified, frightened. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
panicky
adjective: thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation; "became panicky as the snow deepened"; "felt panicked before each exam"; "trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd"; "the terrified horse bolted" [syn: {panicked}, {panic-stricken}, {panic-struck}, {terrified}, {frightened}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "panicky": afraid, all nerves, apprehensive, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, cowed, daunted, dismayed, edgy, excitable, fainthearted, fearful, frightened, funking, funky, henhearted, high-strung, in a panic, intimidated, irritable, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, nerves on edge, nervous, nervy, on edge, overstrung, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicked, pigeonhearted, rabbity, sissified, sissy, soft, timid, timorous, uneasy, unmanly, unmanned, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered, yellow
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