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(picnics, picnicking, picnicked) 1. When people have a picnic, they eat a meal out of doors, usually in a field or a forest, or at the beach. We’re going on a picnic tomorrow... We’ll take a picnic lunch. N-COUNT 2. When people picnic somewhere, they have a picnic. Afterwards, we picnicked on the riverbank. ...such a perfect day for picnicking. VERB: V, V-ing • picnicker (picnickers) ...fires started by careless picnickers. N-COUNT 3. If you say that an experience, task, or activity is no picnic, you mean that it is quite difficult or unpleasant. (INFORMAL) Emigrating is no picnic. PHRASE: V inflects
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I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: German or French; German Picknick, from French pique-nique Date: 1826 1. an excursion or outing with food usually provided by members of the group and eaten in the open; also the food provided for a ~ 2. a. a pleasant or amusingly carefree experience I don't expect being married to be a ~ — Josephine Pinckney b. an easy task or feat 3. a shoulder of pork with much of the butt removed • ~ky adjective II. intransitive verb (~ked; ~king) Date: 1842 to go on a ~ ; eat in ~ fashion • ~ker noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 an outing or excursion including a packed meal eaten out of doors. 2 any meal eaten out of doors or without preparation, tables, chairs, etc. 3 (usu. with neg.) colloq. something agreeable or easily accomplished etc. (it was no picnic organizing the meeting). --v.intr. (picnicked, picnicking) take part in a picnic. Derivatives picnicker n. picnicky adj. colloq. Etymology: F pique-nique, of unkn. orig. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. пикник to hold a picnic in the forest —- устроить пикник в лесу 2. вечеринка с едой в складчину 3. разг. приятное времяпрепровождение, удовольствие life is not a picnic —- жизнь - это не сплошное удовольствие this room was a picnic compared to others —- по сравнению с другими эта комната была просто роскошной no picnic —- нелегкое дело; неприятное дело it is no picnic —- удовольствие ниже среднего 4. относящийся к пикнику picnic basket —- корзинка с едой 5. участвовать в пикнике we picnicked on the grass —- мы подзакусили на траве the whole party sat down to picnic meal —- вся компания уселась подзаправиться на траве 6. лопаточная часть (туши) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) пикник 2) coll. приятное времяпрепровождение; удовольствие; - no picnic 3) attr. picnic hamper - корзина с провизией для пикника 2. v. участвовать в пикнике ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 n 1 an occasion when people take food and eat it outdoors, especially in the country (We're having a picnic in the park this afternoon. | a picnic basket (=for carrying food for a picnic)) 2 be no ~ informal to be difficult or unpleasant and need a lot of work (Taking kids to the museum will be no picnic!) 3 picnic lunch/supper especially AmE the food you take for a ~ (Vera packed a picnic lunch and headed for the river.) 4 BrE the food you take for a ~ (We'll take a picnic with us.) ~2 v ~ked, ~king to have a ~ (holidaymakers picnicking on the grass) - ~ker n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1748 (in Chesterfield's "Letters"), from Fr. piquenique (1692), perhaps a reduplication of piquer "to pick, peck," from O.Fr. (see pike (2)), or the second element may be nique "worthless thing," from a Gmc. source. Originally a fashionable pot-luck social affair, not necessarily out of doors. Figurative sense of "something easy" is from 1880s. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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