A happy event, thing, person, etc.
The strike split the Chicano community. Many workers at Farah crossed picket lines and continued to keep the plant operating. They were known as the "happies" because they wore buttons which featured a smiling face and the slogan, "I'm happy at Farah. …"
Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
Whenever I started drinking again after abstaining for any period of time, it usually was an effort to relieve stress and to "happy up."
A male given name.
A surname transferred from the nickname.
A place in the United States:
From Middle English happy (“fortunate, happy”), perhaps an alteration of Middle English happyn, happen (“fortunate, happy”), possibly related to or from Old Norse heppinn (“fortunate, happy”); and pot...
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Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky.
[…] I think I may presume that what I have hitherto Diſcourſed will induce you to think, that Chymists have been much more happy in finding Experiments than the Cauſes of them; or in aſſigning the Principles by which they may beſt be explain’d.
Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?