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pick flowers en · VERB

Etymology

"Picking flowers" is a sufficiently obvious excuse for separating from a group and squatting down outside that it is found in a wide range of places and languages, from Britain to Botswana and Japanese to Isan.

Meanings

  1. (euphemistic) To excuse oneself from a group and urinate or defecate outdoors.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick, flowers.

Forms

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picking flowers Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
picked flowers Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
picked flowers Tense=Past lexicographic
picks flowers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic