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picnickery en · NOUN

Etymology

picnic + -ery

Meanings

  1. (dated, informal, uncountable) Picnicking.
    • Pic Nics are becoming fashionable in America, and will be quite the rage, for we possess a rich share of the necessary ingredients […] inviting to pleasure and Picnickery. 1843, William Evans Burton, The Yankee Among the Mermaids: And Other Waggeries and Vagaries, page 118:
    • […] it is quite easy to adapt any modern car to purposes of picnickery. 1939, William Heath Robinson, How to be a Motorist: