picnicker
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈpɪk.nɪ.kər/
- The lakefront was bustling with picnickers, all excited for a day of food and fun outdoors.
Examples
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There was a heavy stream of pleasant Sunday traffic on the main road—families, swimmers, and picnickers—so she took the path going down toward the church.
Fiction book (1998) -
Over 600 acres of forest were razed and authorities have closed off the area to all hikers and picnickers.
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The picnickers were over here.
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No sign of charcoal or ashes from a picnicker who hadn't put out his fire, either.
Fiction book (1998) -
Picnickers got swept off pretty ledges, where they sat with their potato chips.
Fiction book (1990) -
A true common area, it had recently been host to sunbathers, picnickers, and stargazers.
Fiction book (1998) -
By 1953, more than 400,000 tourists came annually to the tiny forest, with the picnickers among them staying for four to six hours (Hardin 1990).
Academic text (1994) -
A scenic oasis popular with picnickers, the cenote is a languid, lily-padded pool with a large, cave-pocked rock escarpment rising above it.
Academic text (2004) -
From between two trees at the crest of the hill, a very old man watched, with a nostalgic longing he thought he'd lost all capacity for, as the last group of picnickers packed up their baskets, mounted their horses, and rode away south. They moved a little hastily, for it was a good six miles back to London, and the red sun.
Blog text (32) -
On warm weekends, the park is filled with picnickers enjoying their meals on the grass.
Synonyms
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2.8
A person who is having a picnic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Picnicker comes from picnic, a word that began in French for a meal where people 'pick' small bits of food to share outdoors. So a picnicker is someone who takes part in that outdoor meal.