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Definition of Picnicky
1. pertaining to a picnic [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Picnicky
Literary usage of Picnicky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1903)
"The Indians expected, as a matter of course, to be invited to dinner, which was
a picnicky one. Your interested reader, MARGARET ARMSTRONG. ..."
2. The Bookman (1903)
"Not that it was ever an obstacle to me: poverty always seems to me a nice,
cheerful, picnicky sort of thing with a man one really likes. ..."
3. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"... a cup, and a plate, and our first meals were distinctly " picnicky." The clasp-
knife had to be used for everything, and so had the plate. ..."
4. Colonial Days & Ways as Gathered from Family Papers by Helen Evertson Smith (1900)
"... they of the younger did not have, has a picnicky sound that is droll enough
to modern ears. When " off the banks of New Foundland the Arabella stopped ..."
5. The Story of the Irish Race: A Popular History of Ireland by Seumas MacManus (1921)
"They lived a delicious, picnicky kind of life, where everybody helped with the
cooking and washing-up, and then spent the long care-free hours of the ..."
6. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain (1899)
"This prevalence of snowy costumes gave the promenade deck an invitingly cool and
cheerful and picnicky aspect. From my diary: There are several sorts of ..."
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