So, as far as Mexican officials like Peña Nieto are concerned, the goal is to keep their countrymen here — and keep them happy.
How do you celebrate when happy occasions are colored by loss and absence?
The church was not happy with his views, and there was talk of excommunication.
“We wish each and every one of you a happy and safe new year,” Giorgio said at the very end.
The would-be pope killer loves to be in front of the cameras, and the press in Italy is happy to oblige.
For his sake, I am glad once more to be in my own happy home.
She left me more composed and happy than I have been for many days.
His own situation was described as happy as it could be in a foreign land.
When they do not disturb him with earthly medicines, he is quiet and happy.
She had rejoiced for his happy spirit, and now she mourned her own widowed lot.
late 14c., "lucky, favored by fortune, prosperous;" of events, "turning out well," from hap (n.) "chance, fortune" + -y (2). Sense of "very glad" first recorded late 14c. Ousted Old English eadig (from ead "wealth, riches") and gesælig, which has become silly. Meaning "greatly pleased and content" is from 1520s. Old English bliðe "happy" survives as blithe. From Greek to Irish, 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." Happy medium is from 1778. Happy ending in the literary sense recorded from 1756. Happy as a clam (1630s) was originally happy as a clam in the mud at high tide, when it can't be dug up and eaten. Happy hunting ground, the reputed Indian paradise, is attested from 1840, American English. Related: Happier; happiest.
adjective
Drunk, esp slightly so; tiddly (1893+)
