Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who takes partin a picnic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who takes part in a picnic.

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  • noun Someone having a picnic

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who is picnicking

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Examples

  • I laughed so much with both surprise and delight that I gladly relinquished the bread to gabbling beaks and they went on their way to steam-roller another 'insouciant' picnicker.

    ame soeur - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Peter Jukoski, 52, another picnicker in Manchester, said the country should invest more in education, a belief that conflicts with Mr. Perry's cutting of education spending in Texas.

    GOP Race Gains Focus as Pawlenty Says Goodbye Jonathan Weisman 2011

  • How is it possible, you ask yourself, that in a series of deft, flat, criss-crossing brushstrokes, Seurat was able to render a dark-dressed picnicker, sitting on the grass with his legs stretched out, knees raised -- a white shirted left arm emerging from his waistcoat to grasp those knees.

    Nigel Hamilton: Post-Impressions Nigel Hamilton 2010

  • How is it possible, you ask yourself, that in a series of deft, flat, criss-crossing brushstrokes, Seurat was able to render a dark-dressed picnicker, sitting on the grass with his legs stretched out, knees raised -- a white shirted left arm emerging from his waistcoat to grasp those knees.

    Nigel Hamilton: Post-Impressions Nigel Hamilton 2010

  • Sadly during Ballack's time at Chelsea, Blues fans saw altogether too little of the Chemnitz-born midfielder's impressive wearing-a-suit-and-clapping skills and rather too much of him wandering suavely yet glumly around the field like a Glyndebourne picnicker looking for another glass of Pimms to tide him through the endless Wagner.

    Didn't he used to be rubbish: Michael Ballack of Germany 2010

  • I laughed so much with both surprise and delight that I gladly relinquished the bread to gabbling beaks and they went on their way to steam-roller another 'insouciant' picnicker.

    ame soeur - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Evidently, garbage detectives discovered an envelope with my address and deduced that I was not a picnicker and therefore not legally entitled to use the park's garbage cans.

    Watch Out For The Garbage Police 2008

  • Young has both Pennsylvania senators 'offices in his cell phone, as well as his state officials, while fellow picnicker Norman Vincent prefers to contact his representatives electronically.

    The Ballot Box: Hot Dogs and Handguns at a Hazleton picnic 2008

  • During most of the pre-interview I was as twitchy as a picnicker sitting on a fire-ant nest.

    Beat it... 2005

  • During most of the pre-interview I was as twitchy as a picnicker sitting on a fire-ant nest.

    Chaos Theory: 2005

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