picknick

picknick (plural picknicks)

1. Archaic form of picnic.
   • 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo:

     With these delicacies, and keen appetites, we went out into the moonlight, and had a nocturnal picknick.

picknick (third-person singular simple present picknicks, present participle picknicking, simple past and past participle picknicked)

1. Archaic form of picnic.

Borrowed from English picnic, influenced by the German Picknick.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪk.nɪk/

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• Hyphenation: pick‧nick

picknick m (plural picknicks, diminutive picknickje n)

1. picnic

• picknicken
• picknicktafel

From English picnic, from French pique-nique.

picknick c

1. a picnic

   Vi tänkte gå på picknick. Vill du följa med?

   We thought we'd have a picnic. Want to come along?

• picknick in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• picknick in Svensk ordbok (SO)