finicky
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Even the simple gesture of moving dinner outdoors on a balmy evening can feel picnicky, which is to say, nice.
From New York Times • May 27, 2022
Many drive hundreds or even thousands of miles to converge with other vanners at picnicky socials that are held all over the country.
From Time Magazine Archive
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So that we can start in a real picnicky spirit.
From A Foregone Conclusion by Howells, William Dean
There's an attractive sort of picnicky atmosphere about these al-fresco repasts in the bush.
From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Bryde, Charles W. L.
Every picnicky thing was there, Including the girls and the son and heir, A red-cheeked frivolous knife-and-fork's crew, Who hadn't forgotten, oh joy, the corkscrew!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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