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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pick flowers

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.51 in modern English

Syllables
pick- flow-ers
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To excuse oneself from a group and urinate or defecate outdoors.

verb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick, flowers.

Etymology

"Picking flowers" is a sufficiently obvious excuse for separating from a group and squatting down outside that it is found in a wide range of places and languages, from Britain to Botswana and Japanese to Isan.

Inflected Forms

picks flowers (present, singular) picking flowers (participle, present) picked flowers (participle, past) picked flowers (past)

Questions

What does pick flowers mean?
To excuse oneself from a group and urinate or defecate outdoors.
Where does pick flowers come from?
"Picking flowers" is a sufficiently obvious excuse for separating from a group and squatting down outside that it is found in a wide range of places and languages, from Britain to Botswana and Japanese to Isan.

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