-happy sfx
(orig. milit.)1. obsessed with.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | letter 21 Oct. in Ferrell Dear Bess (1983) 232: We’ll be hard-boiled and bomb-happy when we get to Berlin. | |
| We Are the Public Enemies 23: Some of the gang, after years in prison, were skirt happy. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 140: knuckle happy One always ready to fight. | |
| In For Life 136: The pencil-happy screws caused a lot of it [i.e. unhappiness and pressure]. | |
| letter 3 July in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 863: Got slug nutty happy about them around 1933. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | ‘Kid Playboy’ Casey and Co. (1978) 27: The bright boys over there have turned the place into a gunsmoke and knife-happy township. | |
| (con. 1940s) Autobiog. (1968) 202: I’d point out the Negro-happy white women to him. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | All Bull 23: ‘There you are,’ said Taffy, nudging me heavily in the ribs. ‘C-c-cock-’appy’. | |
| Sex Lab 6: ‘You are a cunt-happy bastard!’ Pamela mouthed. That girl was not one to mince words. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Lily on the Dustbin 96: That ‘jumped up’ young woman from the new house ‘down the road’, a real ‘parve’ (parvenue) or ‘Johnny come lately’, ‘butted in’ and got served out of turn by the ‘skirt happy’ butcher’s offsider. | |
| Alice in La-La Land (1999) 82: You’re cock happy. You’re one of them won’t do it at home. | |
| Chopper From The Inside 137: Around that time Joe was quite kill happy. | |
| Awaydays 76: I didn’t think you were like that [...] You know. Wham-bam, thank you ma’am. Shag-happy. | |
| Last Precinct 9: She’s gotten trigger-happy, Doc. | |
| (con. 1960s-70s) Top Fellas 57/2: By all accounts some of Bob’s boys were a tad bash happy. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | (con. 1980s) Skagboys 57: Matty [...] has been skag-happy for donks. | |
| Decent Ride 107: That mid-thirties [...] That’s when a lassie really gits shag-happy. |
2. slightly insane as a result of a circumstance, e.g. demob-happy, bomb-happy.
| Bluey & Curley 1 Sept. [synd. cartoon strip] We don’t call it shell-shock in this war! We call it being bomb happy!! | |
| in War Paint 105: [aircraft nose art] Sack Happy. | |
| Eve. Teleg. 18 July 8/4: Round the Bend — Ripe for the nut-house. Advanced form of Sand Happy. | |
| ‘Whitman College Sl.’ in AS XVIII:2 Apr. 153/2: coop happy. To be out of one’s mind from being shut up. | |
| Sydney Morn. Herald 11 Dec. 7/2: Bombing or shelling [...] may suddenly render the bravest soldier ‘bomb-happy.’ It is the modern equivalent of shell-shock. | |
| Life 19 June 94: All nerves are on edge, eyes are haggard and everybody, German or American, is trigger-happy. | |
| Sat. Eve. Post 4 Aug. 23: Bark-happy watchdogs and sore feet make the fugitives’ path through France miserable. | |
| Black Metropolis 568: After a day of imbibing Christmas cheer [...] She must have been a little slug-happy. | |
| Behind Bamboo 395/1: Bomb happy, especially nervous about bombing. [Ibid.] 398/2: Rice happy, one who has had too much rice. | |
| Harder They Fall (1971) 129: This nation of radio listeners and shop-happy consumers, this great spectator nation. | |
| (con. 1944) Naked and Dead 289: That guy is stripe-happy. | |
| (con. 1943–5) To Hell and Back (1950) 245: ‘What’s wrong with that joe? Battle-happy?’ asks Candler. | |
| One Lonely Night 15: When you’re wrong you’re kill-happy. | |
| Battle Cry (1964) 135: Let’s knock off. I’m going dit-happy at this damned key. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Till Human Voices Wake Us 41: He’d done nearly nine years [...] and he was boob-happy. | |
| Waiters 272: You know how you chicks is [...] you start gittin’ man-happy. | |
| Men from the Boys (1967) 14: The kid had always been muscle-happy and copy crazy. [Ibid.] 18: The kid [...] was so badge-happy it was comical. | |
| Banker Tells All 75: He was cash-happy. | |
| They Who Fought Here 230: While the ‘butchery’ of Civil War surgeons has probably been exaggerated, some of them were unquestionably ‘saw-happy’. | |
| (con. 1940s) Do Not Go Gentle (1962) 201: Trouble with you hoss, you’re glory-happy. Allus buckin’ for medals. | |
| One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding 67: He come back an take his wad-happy pants off. | |
| Mute Witness (1997) 4: Are you calling me trigger-happy? | |
| All Night Stand 123: Shag-happy bastards. | |
| (con. 1950s) Unit Pride (1981) 241: The Commies? You’re combat-happy. | |
| McAuslan in the Rough 13: If you let ’em slack off, or have time to be bored, they’ll be sand-happy before you know it. | |
| (con. 1941) Gunner 43: Bomb-happy [...] Too many bombs make me magnoon. | |
| On the Stroll 127: Between two and three the team had bagged three hundred plus from the paycheck-happy crowd emerging with stuffed pockets from the bank. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Secret World of the Irish Male (1995) 102: A member of the clap-happy brigade. | |
| Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] ‘Shit! I’m sorry about your girlfriend. She’s gone battle happy’. | |
| Keepers of Truth 169: Looks like Sam’s getting slap happy. | |
| Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 39: bush happy Somewhat deranged or eccentric person, from living alone too long in the bush. |