happy

happy

informal Slightly drunk; tipsy. They kept refilling our glasses of wine at lunch, so we were all pretty happy by the time we left.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

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.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) happy as a clam
  • (as) happy as a clam at high tide
  • (as) happy as a clam in butter sauce
  • (as) happy as a duck in Arizona
  • (as) happy as a lark
  • (as) happy as a pig in clover
  • (as) happy as a pig in muck
  • (as) happy as a pig in mud
  • (as) happy as a pig in shit
  • (as) happy as a pig in slop
  • (as) happy as a sandboy
  • (as) happy as can be
  • (as) happy as Larry
  • (as) happy as the day is long
  • (I'd be) happy to (do something)
  • a few fries short of a Happy Meal
  • a happy bunny
  • a happy camper
  • a happy hunting ground
  • a happy medium
  • a/the happy event
  • a/the happy medium
  • be (as) happy as a clam (at high tide)
  • be a happy camper
  • be as happy as a sandboy
  • be as happy as Larry
  • be glad, etc. to see the back of somebody/something
  • Be happy to
  • be happy to (do something)
  • call no man happy till he dies
  • couldn't be happier
  • count no man happy till he dies
  • fat and happy
  • find a happy medium
  • happy
  • Happy (Holiday Name)!
  • happy accident
  • happy as a clam
  • happy as a clam (at high tide)
  • happy as a duck in Arizona
  • happy as a lark
  • happy as a pig in muck
  • happy as a sandboy
  • happy as Larry
  • happy as the day is long
  • happy as the day is long/as a clam/as Larry
  • happy birthday
  • happy bunny
  • happy camper
  • Happy Christmas
  • happy days
  • happy event
  • Happy Holidays
  • happy hour
  • happy hunting ground
  • happy is the bride that the sun shines on
  • happy is the country which has no history
  • happy juice
  • happy mean
  • happy medium
  • happy pills
  • happy shop
  • happy to
  • happy warrior
  • Happy Xmas
  • happy-go-lucky
  • hit a happy medium
  • I hope you're happy
  • Is that a (something) in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
  • many happy returns
  • many happy returns of the day
  • merry Christmas and a happy new year
  • none too
  • none too clever, happy, quickly, etc.
  • not a happy bunny
  • not happy, Jan
  • one big happy family
  • quite the (most something)
  • slap happy
  • slap-happy
  • strike a happy medium
  • the happy day
  • the happy event
  • the happy/golden mean
  • trigger happy
  • trigger-happy
References in classic literature
Then the Swallow flew back to the Happy Prince, and told him what he had done.
When the moon rose he flew back to the Happy Prince.
Now I can finish my play," and he looked quite happy.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
"If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you.
Pride and Prejudice
The loving Elves brought her sweet dreams by night, and happy thoughts by day, and as she grew in childlike beauty, pure and patient amid poverty and sorrow, the sinful were rebuked, sorrowing hearts grew light, and the weak and selfish forgot their idle fears, when they saw her trustingly live on with none to aid or comfort her.
Thus their little hands led him back to peace and happiness, flowers bloomed beside his door, and their fragrant breath brought happy thoughts of pleasant valleys and green hills; birds sang to him, and their sweet voices woke the music in his own soul, that never failed to calm and comfort.
Flower Fables
I laugh sometimes behind the book at his disgusted face, and wish we could be photographed, so that I may be reminded in twenty years' time, when the garden is a bower of loveliness and I learned in all its ways, of my first happy struggles and failures.
What a happy woman I am living in a garden, with books, babies, birds, and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them!
Elizabeth and her German Garden
'Happy, ma'am!' cried Oliver; 'how kind of you to say so!'
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boys Progress
As they sat sewing together, Jo discovered how much improved her sister Meg was, how well she could talk, how much she knew about good, womanly impulses, thoughts, and feelings, how happy she was in husband and children, and how much they were all doing for each other.
She had often said she wanted to do something splendid, no matter how hard, and now she had her wish, for what could be more beautiful than to devote her life to Father and Mother, trying to make home as happy to them as they had to her?
Little Women
Everything was as it used to be, in the happy time.
She loved me dearly, but was never happy. She was always labouring, in secret, under this distress; and being delicate and downcast at the time of his last repulse - for it was not the first, by many - pined away and died.
David Copperfield
Crawford's very cordial adieus, pass quietly away; stopping at the entrance-door, like the Lady of Branxholm Hall, "one moment and no more," to view the happy scene, and take a last look at the five or six determined couple who were still hard at work; and then, creeping slowly up the principal staircase, pursued by the ceaseless country-dance, feverish with hopes and fears, soup and negus, sore-footed and fatigued, restless and agitated, yet feeling, in spite of everything, that a ball was indeed delightful.
She meant to be giving her little heart a happy flutter, and filling her with sensations of delightful self-consequence; and, misinterpreting Fanny's blushes, still thought she must be doing so when she went to her after the two first dances, and said, with a significant look, "Perhaps you can tell me why my brother goes to town to-morrow?
Mansfield Park