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hap⋅py

  [hap-ee]
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–adjective, -pi⋅er, -pi⋅est.
1. delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.
2. characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy: a happy mood; a happy frame of mind.
3. favored by fortune; fortunate or lucky: a happy, fruitful land.
4. apt or felicitous, as actions, utterances, or ideas.
5. obsessed by or quick to use the item indicated (usually used in combination): a trigger-happy gangster. Everybody is gadget-happy these days.
Origin:
1300–50; ME; see hap 1 , -y 1

Synonyms:
1. joyous, joyful, blithe, cheerful, merry, contented, gay, blissful, satisfied. 3. favorable, propitious; successful, prosperous. See fortunate. 4. appropriate, fitting, opportune, pertinent.

Antonyms:
1. sad.
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hap·py   (hāp'ē)   
adj.   hap·pi·er, hap·pi·est

  1. Characterized by good luck; fortunate.

  2. Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy.

  3. Being especially well-adapted; felicitous: a happy turn of phrase.

  4. Cheerful; willing: happy to help.

    1. Characterized by a spontaneous or obsessive inclination to use something. Often used in combination: trigger-happy.

    2. Enthusiastic about or involved with to a disproportionate degree. Often used in combination: money-happy; clothes-happy.


[Middle English, from hap, luck; see hap.]
hap'pi·ly adv., hap'pi·ness n.
Synonyms: These adjectives mean attended by luck or good fortune: a happy outcome; a fortunate omen; a lucky guess; a providential recovery. See Also Synonyms at glad1.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
happy

  1. mod.
    alcohol intoxicated; tipsy. : She seems a little happy. Must have had a few already.
  2. mod.
    obsessed with something. (A combining form showing a strong interest in the thing that is named before happy.) : Pete's car-happy right now. That's all he thinks about.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

happy 
1340, "lucky," from hap "chance, fortune" (see haphazard), sense of "very glad" first recorded c.1390. Ousted O.E. eadig (from ead "wealth, riches") and gesælig, which has become silly. O.E. bliðe "happy" survives as blithe. From Gk. to Ir., a great majority of the European words for "happy" at first meant "lucky." An exception is Welsh, where the word used first meant "wise." Used in World War II and after as a suffix (e.g. bomb-happy, flak-happy) expressing "dazed or frazzled from stress." Happiness is first recorded 1530. Happy hour "early evening period of discount drinks and free hors-d'oeuvres at a bar" is first recorded 1961. Happy-go-lucky is from 1672. Happy as a clam (1636) was originally happy as a clam in the mud at high tide, when it can't be dug up and eaten.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

Happy tool
A dyslexic acronym for "A Yacc-like Haskell Parser generator".
An LALR1 grammar parser generator for Haskell. Happy is written in Haskell, uses a parser generated by itself, and can be compiled using ghc, hbc or gofer. Happy uses an implementation of monadic IO built on top of stream IO, but this should change when the Haskell 1.3 standard has been implemented.
Version: 0.9 (1996-02-28).
Happy is covered by the General Public License.
(http://dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/happy.html).
(ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/happy/).
E-mail: , .
(1996-03-21)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Idioms & Phrases

happy

In addition to the idioms beginning with happy, also see many happy returns; trigger happy.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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