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
A rude bench had been knocked together by some picnicker of the past, and on this Bates was fain to sit down to regain his breath.
From What Necessity Knows by Lily Dougall
Scotty inspected the place where the rain had washed the topsoil away, probably because some careless picnicker had ruined the grass in that spot.
From The Blue Ghost Mystery by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
