A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address
In Ed McBain’s short story A Very Merry Christmas a man who is feeling especially cheerful and optimistic offers to buy a stranger in a bar a drink.
The man to whom the offer is made is highly suspicious, and thinks that a homosexual approach is being made. ‘Get lost, Happy,’ he tells the cheerful man. This could be the word ‘happy’ converted into a nonce nickname, or a transferred use of ‘Happy’, the name of one of the dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the 1937 Disney film.
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