Antonyms for picnic
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pik-nik |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪk nɪk |
Definition of picnic
Origin :- 1748 (in Chesterfield's "Letters"), but rare before c.1800 as an English institution; originally a fashionable pot-luck social affair, not necessarily out of doors; from French piquenique (1690s), perhaps a reduplication of piquer "to pick, peck," from Old French (see pike (n.2)), or the second element may be nique "worthless thing," from a Germanic source. Figurative sense of "something easy" is from 1886. Picnic table recorded from 1926, originally a folding table.
- noun outdoor meal
- noun easy undertaking
- I brought her out here for a trolley ride and a picnic luncheon.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- You tell the boys that if I find this street scrawled over any more, the picnic's off.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Two dollars for a scholars' picnic in a place where no child is supposed to have money.
- Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa
- She never missed a picnic to Annandale, the Waterfalls, or Mashobra.
- Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes
- Would a Sunday-school picnic constitute a bribe worth mentioning?
- Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
- There was one across the river from us, and on a corner of it we used to picnic and play.
- Extract from : « W. A. G.'s Tale » by Margaret Turnbull
- "It was on a picnic—please do not ask me," she whispered foolishly.
- Extract from : « The Innocent Adventuress » by Mary Hastings Bradley
- In short, it made them think of the Bois de Vincennes when they went there for a picnic.
- Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
- The hens and me will be having a picnic in the barn-yard, Master Nibble, I'm thinking.
- Extract from : « Five Mice in a Mouse-trap » by Laura E. Richards
- Bmfkgth departed on his errand, and I turned again to watch the picnic.
- Extract from : « Five Mice in a Mouse-trap » by Laura E. Richards
Synonyms for picnic
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