picnickery

English

Etymology

picnic +‎ -ery

Noun

picnickery (uncountable)

  1. (dated, informal) Picnicking.
    • 1843, William Evans Burton, The Yankee Among the Mermaids: And Other Waggeries and Vagaries, page 118:
      Pic Nics are becoming fashionable in America, and will be quite the rage, for we possess a rich share of the necessary ingredients […] inviting to pleasure and Picnickery.
    • 1939, William Heath Robinson, How to be a Motorist:
      […] it is quite easy to adapt any modern car to purposes of picnickery.
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