Pic'nie, n.

n. [Fr. pique-nique, from piquer, to prick, to stick, to lard, and nique, a small coin.] 1. Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish or article for the general table; in present use, an entertainment carried by a party on an excursion of pleasure into the country; also the party itself. 2. A kind of small, sweet biscuit. Simmonds.