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  • adjective informal picniclike

Etymologies

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picnic +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Although, from a my perspective, really tiny ants--and TONS of them scattered about--would be more "picnicky" than the ones from the Big & Cutsie aisle.

    Oh, Bugger 2009

  • Supper was a picnicky sort of affair—blankets and cushions on the floor and a toasty fire.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Supper was a picnicky sort of affair—blankets and cushions on the floor and a toasty fire.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • As I mentioned on Friday, I was in a picnicky kind of mood, which was handy, since I was already planning on making oven-fried chicken based on this Chowhound recipe.

    Question: How'd That Chicken Turn Out? Kit Pollard 2009

  • As I mentioned on Friday, I was in a picnicky kind of mood, which was handy, since I was already planning on making oven-fried chicken based on this Chowhound recipe.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Kit Pollard 2009

  • At first the officers messed in the open in picnicky fashion.

    The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 F. L. Morrison

  • Besides, he did not feel like being sprightly and picnicky with Nancy beside him.

    Tutors' Lane 1937

  • Me and Williams had a real picnicky, sociable time.

    The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • So the men and maids went off to the wheat-fields, as if they were going to a frolic; and there was a happy sense of freedom, with the picnicky dinner, and the general air of things being left to themselves about the house.

    The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

  • This prevalence of snowy costumes gave the promenade deck an invitingly cool, and cheerful and picnicky aspect.

    Following the Equator — Part 1 Mark Twain 1872

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