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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



... sitting down on a wasps' nest—a torchlight dance—with what intensity such things, and ten thousand like them, impressed themselves upon her eager consciousness! And how she flew to her journal to note them down! The news of the Duke's death! What a moment—when, as she sat sketching after a picnic by a loch in the lonely hills, Lord Derby's letter had been brought to her, and she had learnt that "ENGLAND'S, or rather BRITAIN'S pride, her glory, her hero, the greatest man she had ever produced, was no morel." For such were here ...
— Queen Victoria • Lytton Strachey

... Robert, that renews my faith in the truths of—of life. I'm going out into the wilderness on a grave mission whose result may shake down some houses of—of cards, but because of your being with me I feel as if I were starting off on a picnic or a day's fishing at the age of ten. Now, I'll hurry." And as he spoke my Gouverneur Faulkner made a start in the direction of ...
— The Daredevil • Maria Thompson Daviess

... she wuz dead tired of the cares, formalities and burdens of a queen, she wished she wuz one of them happy young girls riding off in a cotton frock on the old farm wagon into some joyous picnic. ...
— Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition • Marietta Holley

... sporting excursions with the king, who was always delighted when he shot a bird or an animal, jumping and leaping, and shouting: "Woh! woh! woh!" to express his delight. One of these was to the Lake Nyanza, after Speke had somewhat ingratiated himself with the sovereign. It was somewhat of a picnic party, and the king was accompanied as usual by a choice selection of his wives. Having crossed over to a woody island some distance from the shore, the party sat down to a repast, when large bowls of pomba were served ...
— Great African Travellers - From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley • W.H.G. Kingston

... up in front of you and look me in the eyes and begin to talk. Tell me all the little things that most people leave out; what he said and she said on the way to the picnic, and how Betty looked in her daffodil dress, with the sun shining on her brown curls. Write as if you were making pictures for me, so that when I read I can see everything you ...
— The Little Colonel's Hero • Annie Fellows Johnston


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