picnic
noun
an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
picnicker
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a word derived from
picnic.
Example Sentences
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Impressionism has lost its power to surprise; it’s hard to feel shocked about Manet’s nude picnicker when you’ve seen Carolee Schneemann’s work.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 20, 2018
Yet another picnicker, thinking it was boys firing blanks, shouted: “Stop fooling around, or someone will get hurt!”
From Newsweek
COLIC: colicky frolic: frolicked, frolicker, frolicking GARLIC: garlicky mimic: mimicked, mimicking panic: panicked, panicking, panicky picnic: picnicked, picnicker, picnicking POLITICS: politicker, politicking traffic: trafficked, trafficker, trafficking playwright.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
But at Stratford the tourist is loosed; the picnicker is abroad; the voice of the pedant is heard in the land, and the Baconian is upon us.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Elbert Hubbard
They trotted the little detour in silence, the corners of her mouth wilting, he would have declared, had he the words, like a field flower in the hands of a picnicker.
From The Vertical City by Fannie Hurst
