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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 picnic ham, picnic shoulder. a section of pork shoulder, usually boned, smoked, and weighing 4–6 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)
5.
to go on or take part in a picnic.
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Picnickers
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Origin:
1740–50; < German Pic-nic (now Picknick) < French pique-nique, rhyming compound < ?
1740–50; < German Pic-nic (now Picknick) < French pique-nique, rhyming compound < ?
Related forms
pic·nick·er, noun
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picnic
1748 (in Chesterfield's "Letters"), but rare before c.1800 as an Eng. institution, from Fr. piquenique (1692), perhaps a reduplication of piquer "to pick, peck," from O.Fr. (see pike (2)), or the second element may be nique "worthless thing," from a Gmc. source. Originally
EXPAND a fashionable pot-luck social affair, not necessarily out of doors. Figurative sense of "something easy" is from 1886.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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