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picnic

[ pik-nik ]

noun

  1. an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
  2. the food eaten on such an excursion.
  3. Also called pic顎僴ic ham顎, a section of pork shoulder, usually boned, smoked, and weighing 4鈥6 pounds. Compare daisy ( def 2 ).
  4. Informal. an enjoyable experience or time, easy task, etc.:

    Being laid up in a hospital is no picnic.



verb (used without object)

picnicked, picnicking.
  1. to go on or take part in a picnic.

picnic

/ 藞辫瑟办苍瑟办 /

noun

  1. a trip or excursion to the country, seaside, etc, on which people bring food to be eaten in the open air
    1. any informal meal eaten outside
    2. ( as modifier )

      a picnic lunch

  2. informal.
    a troublesome situation or experience
  3. no picnic informal.
    a hard or disagreeable task
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. intr to eat a picnic
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞辫颈肠苍颈肠办别谤, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 辫颈肠顎僴颈肠办路别谤 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of picnic1

1740鈥50; < German Pic-nic (now Picknick ) < French pique-nique, rhyming compound < ?
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of picnic1

C18: from French piquenique, of unknown origin
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Idioms and Phrases

see no picnic .
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Example Sentences

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Social media is rife with photos of people slogging along the tracks in the company of toddlers and dogs, hauling picnic gear.

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Packed in my picnic basket beside my chair, Banana Cake joined me while watching sunsets on some of the most beautiful, sugar white, talcum powder soft beaches in the world.

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Her aim was to try to clear the park of waste before the Easter weekend so that if the weather was nice, people would be able to head out for picnics.

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"When the mountains are plastered in gorse you have cases like California with people going for a picnic and chucking glass and then you've got a problem," she said.

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"It goes quickly," he said, with a school trip, a picnic or a day out usually taking up a big chunk of that spending money.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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