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pic⋅nic

[pik-nik] noun, verb, -nicked, -nick⋅ing.
–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.

Origin:
1740–50; < G Pic-nic (now Picknick) < F pique-nique, rhyming compound < ?


pic⋅nick⋅er, noun
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picnic

  1. n.
    a good time; an easy time. : Nothing to it. A real picnic.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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 a fashionable pot-luck social affair, not necessarily out of doors. Figurative sense of "something easy" is from 1886.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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