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
The presence of this biding thing did not affect the man with the same horror that it would if he had been a picnicker.
From Men, Women, and Boats by Stephen Crane
He would not even remove the occasional green leaves and rosebuds that clung to him here and there with a most ludicrous effect, making one think of a too festive picnicker.
From The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
