# pick flowers

> English word · Verb

## Definitions
1. To excuse oneself from a group and urinate or defecate outdoors.
2. 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.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/pick-flowers