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Date "PIC-NIC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
"PIC-NIC" is a common misspelling or typo for: picnic. |
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Literature | Pic-nic Dr. John Anthony derives it from the Italian piccola nicchia (a small task), each person being set a small task towards the general entertainment. (French, pique-nique.) The modern custom dates from 1802, but picnics, called eranot, where each person contributed something, and one was appointed "master of the feast," are mentioned by Homer, in his Odyssey, i. 226. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: picnic. | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-i-i-n-p" | |
-3 letters: nip, pic, pin. | |
-4 letters: in, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-i-i-n-p" | |
+1 letter: picnics. | |
+2 letters: capsicin, picnicky. | |
+3 letters: capsaicin, capsicins, coppicing, hiccuping, isopycnic, panmictic, picnicked, picnicker, pinocytic. | |
+4 letters: capsaicins, hiccupping, incapacity, incipience, incipiency, picnickers, picnicking, polyclinic, practicing, unspecific. | |
+5 letters: accipitrine, captaincies, conspecific, conspicuity, coprincipal, corecipient, coscripting, incipiences, microphonic, necrophilic, nociceptive, nonspecific, percipience, pinocytotic, polyclinics, preclinical, proficiency, sphincteric. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 49 43 2D 4E 49 43 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001001 01000011 00101101 01001110 01001001 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P I C - N I C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0049 0043 002D 004E 0049 0043 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50433715484337 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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