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picnickery

picnickery noun: picnicking.

Noun

picnickery (uncountable)

  1. (dated, informal) 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

Origin of picnickery

picnic + -ery

Questions about picnickery

What does picnickery mean?
Picnickery means picnicking.
What part of speech is picnickery?
Picnickery is a noun.

Words near picnickery in the dictionary

  1. picnic table
  2. picnic tables
  3. picnicked
  4. picnicker
  5. picnickers
  6. picnickery
  7. picnickian
  8. picnickians
  9. picnicking
  10. picnickings
  11. picnickish

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