picnic – English noun declension

English noun forms of picnic

Noun: picnic
Singularpicnic
Pluralpicnics

Sample Sentences

  • We went out for a picnic in the forest.
  • We remind the guests that dealing with this problem is no picnic, and to be patient.
  • "Don't put your hand on me," said Uncle Henry irritably. "I'm crawling with lice. War would be a picnic if it wasn't for lice and dysentery. […] [1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:]
  • Smoked picnics of medium weights - from 6 to 8 pounds - are selling at wholesale at present for about half the price of fancy hams. Standard bacon of medium weights is another smoked product that is selling […] [1923, The National Provisioner, page 50:]
  • Smoked picnics (calas) are pork shoulders with the butt portion removed just beyond the knuckle bone. Shoulder butts are boneless […] [1940, War Department Technical Manual, page 53:]
  • Smoked picnics are sold whole and usually fully cooked. When sold boneless they are called pork shoulder roll.
  • COOKING HAMS AND PICNICS
  • Roasting : Roast a fully cooked ham or picnic according to […] [2001, Good Housekeeping, The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook, Hearst Books, →ISBN, page 218:]

Etymology

Borrowed from French pique-nique.

Verbs referencing "picnic"

Italian Nouns picnic, Spanish Nouns picnic, Finnish Nouns piknikki, German Nouns Picknick, Hungarian Nouns piknik, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns piknik, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns piknik, Dutch Nouns picknick, Swedish Nouns picknick, Bulgarian Nouns пикник, Russian Nouns пикник.