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Picnic. A picnic is a meal taken outdoors ( al fresco) as part of an excursion, especially in scenic surroundings, such as a park, lakeside, or other place affording an interesting view, or else in conjunction with a public event such as preceding an open-air theater performance, [ 1] and usually in summer or spring.
Picnic: The word "picnic" did not originate as an abbreviation of "pick a nigger", a phrase falsely claimed to have been used by white families at community lynchings in the 19th century. [68] "Picnic" comes from 17th-century French piquenique, which is of uncertain origin. [69] [70]
Potluck. A potluck is a communal gathering where each guest or group contributes a different, often homemade, dish of food to be shared. Other names for a "potluck" include: potluck dinner, pitch-in, shared lunch, spread, faith supper, carry-in dinner, [ 1] covered-dish-supper, [ 2] fuddle, Jacob's Join, [ 3] bring a plate, [ 4] and fellowship ...
Pikey ( / ˈpaɪkiː /; also spelled pikie, pykie) [ 1][ 2] is an ethnic slur referring to Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people. It is used mainly in the United Kingdom and in Ireland to refer to people who belong to groups which had a traditional travelling lifestyle. [ 3][ 4] Groups referred to with this term include Irish Travellers, English ...
August 5, 2024 at 5:02 AM. When the first St. Joseph Children's Home picnic began in 1850, the Louisville orphanage was for children who’d lost a parent to diseases of the era like influenza ...
Pickaninny. Pickaninny (also picaninny, piccaninny or pickininnie) is a pidgin word for a small child, possibly derived from the Portuguese pequenino ('boy, child, very small, tiny'). [ 1] It has been used as a racial slur for African American children and a pejorative term for Aboriginal children of the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand.
Teddy Bears' Picnic. " The Teddy Bears' Picnic " is a song consisting of a melody written in 1907 by American composer John Walter Bratton, and lyrics added in 1932 by Irish songwriter Jimmy Kennedy. It remains popular in Ireland and the United Kingdom as a children's song, having been recorded by numerous artists over the decades.
Linguistics. Etymology ( / ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi /, ET-im-OL-ə-jee[ 1]) is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes. [ 2][ 3] It is a subfield of historical linguistics, philology, and semiotics, and draws upon comparative semantics, morphology ...