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Picnic   /pˈɪknˌɪk/   Listen
Picnic

noun
1.
A day devoted to an outdoor social gathering.  Synonyms: field day, outing.
2.
Any undertaking that is easy to do.  Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover.
3.
Any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion.
verb
(past & past part. picnicked; pres. part. picnicking)
1.
Eat alfresco, in the open air.



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"Picnic" Quotes from Famous Books



... which I have been telling, I went to a picnic gotten up by Mrs. Purblind, for the entertainment and delectation of Mr. Purblind's cousin, now visiting her, a frivolous young thing, between whom and myself there was not even the weather in common, for she would label "simply horrid" a lovely gray day, containing all sorts of possibilities ...
— How to Cook Husbands • Elizabeth Strong Worthington

... a bouldery path through firs and birches, looking into black caves, peeping over steep cliffs, and at last reaching the wind-swept summit to look off through miles of emptiness. An adventure, coming home from a picnic as evening was falling, to sit snug in that creaking capacious wagon which belonged to Stouty's father, and to watch the lights and shadows that darted in and out of the pines as the lantern swung beneath ...
— The Harbor • Ernest Poole

... A picnic life; from love to love, From faith to faith they lightly move, And yet, hard-eyed philosopher, The flightiest maid that ever hovered 40 To me your thought-webs fine discovered, No lens to see ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... fetched along one of those hand-electric torches, did you, Jack?" he exclaimed. "Well, a flashlight never had a better chance to make itself useful than right now. It's going to be a picnic from here on. I can see every little twig and blade of grass; and as for our trail, a fellow could follow it with one eye shut. Thank goodness! our troubles for the day are ended; unless it comes on to rain cats and dogs before ...
— Jack Winters' Campmates • Mark Overton

... stopped for lunch. In Wyoming quantity has a great deal more to do with satisfaction than does quality; after half a day's drive you won't care so much what it is you're going to eat as you will that there is enough of it. That is a lesson I learned long ago; so our picnic was real. There were no ants in the pie, but that is accounted for by there being no pie. Our road had crossed the creek, and we were resting in the shade of a quaking-asp grove, high up on the sides of the Bad Land hills. For miles far below ...
— Letters of a Woman Homesteader • Elinore Pruitt Stewart


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