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Definition: PICNICKING |
PICNICKINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Picnic |
Date "PICNICKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
Crosswords: PICNICKING |
| English words defined with "PICNICKING": picknicker, picnic area, picnic ground, picnicker. (references) |
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 | A 15-mile segment of Bonita Creek is part of a special area designated by Congress. Along with 23 miles of the Gila River, this creek is part of the Gila Box Riparian National Conservation Area. Popular for birding and picnicking opportunities, the area is located near Safford, Arizona.Credit: Unknown. |  | Picnicking at Douglas Creek in Douglas County, Washington.Credit: Unknown. |
 | On Sunday afternoons they all went picnicking.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Picnicking on the Halifax.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tourists and guides picnicking in Yellowstone Park.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Picnicking in the shade. Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Family picnicking at roadside table on area to be acquired by Resettlement Administration. Allegan project, Michigan.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Redding, California. Girls picnicking at municipal park and beach on Sacramento River.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Spectators picnicking before the Point to Point Cup race of the Maryland Hunt Club. Worthington Valley, near Glyndon, Maryland.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "PICNICKING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PICNICKING" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
picnicking | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PICNICKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 去野餐 (Picnicked). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 소풍가. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | icnickingpay участвовать в пикнике (picnic, picnicked). (various references) | ||||||||||
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"PICNICKING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: picknicking, picnicing, pinicking, Pinnikin, pycnocline. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-g-i-i-i-k-n-n-p" | |
-3 letters: kingpin, nicking, picking, pinking. | |
-4 letters: inking, picnic, piking, pining. | |
-5 letters: icing, kinin, piing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 49 43 4E 49 43 4B 49 4E 47 |
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