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pic⋅nic

  [pik-nik] noun, verb, -nicked, -nick⋅ing.
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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.
Origin:
1740–50; < G Pic-nic (now Picknick) < F pique-nique, rhyming compound < ?

Related forms:
pic⋅nick⋅er, noun
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pic·nic   (pĭk'nĭk)   
n.  

  1. A meal eaten outdoors, as on an excursion.

  2. Slang An easy task or a pleasant experience.

  3. A smoked section of pork foreleg and shoulder.

intr.v.   pic·nicked, pic·nick·ing, pic·nics
To go on or participate in a picnic.

[French pique-nique, probably reduplication of piquer, to pick; see pique.]
pic'nick·er n., pic'nick·y adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
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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Idioms & Phrases

picnic

see no picnic.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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