English Explanatory Dictionary

pick flowers

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To excuse oneself from a group and urinate or defecate outdoors.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick, flowers.

Word forms

pick flowers picks flowers picking flowers picked 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.

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