different between happy vs blag

English

Etymology

From Middle English happy (“fortunate, happy”), perhaps an alteration of Middle English happyn, happen (“fortunate, happy”), from Old Norse heppinn (“fortunate, happy”); assimilated to be equivalent to hap (“chance, luck, fortune”) +? -y. Compare also Icelandic heppinn (“lucky”), Scots happin (“fortunate, blessed”). See further at hap.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?hæpi?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?hæpi/
• Rhymes: -æpi
• Hyphenation: hap?py

Adjective

happy (comparative happier or more happy, superlative happiest or most happy)

1. Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
   • 1731, Thomas Bayes, Divine Benevolence: or, An Attempt to Prove that the Principal End of the Divine Providence and Government is the Happiness of His Creatures: Being an Answer to a Pamphlet, Entitled, Divine Rectitude; or, An Inquiry Concerning the Moral Perfections of the Deity. With a Refutation of the Notions therein Advanced Concerning Beauty and Order, the Reason of Punishment, and the Necessity of a State of Trial antecedent to Perfect Happiness, London: Printed for John Noon, at the White-Hart in Cheapside, near Mercers-Chapel, OCLC 642498368; quoted in Andrew I. Dale, Most Honourable Remembrance: The Life and Work of Thomas Bayes (Studies and Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences), New York, N.Y.: Springer, 2003, ISBN 978-0-387-00499-0, page 138:

     […] For the most happy universe is not one that consists of the greatest possible number of the most happy beings only; but one that consists of that, and the greatest possible number of beings next inferior to the first rank, and so downward, till we come to those that approach the nearest to insensible matter.
2. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
4. (Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 58:

     ‘I had the happy notion of adding an egg,’ Williams shouted back. ‘It poaches in the soup. Not unlike an Italian stracciatella. Singularly toothsome...’

5. (in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.
6. (rare, of people, often followed by "at" or "in") Dexterous, ready, skilful.

Usage notes

• (contented, joyous): Said of people, hours, times, thoughts, etc.
• (fortunate, lucky): Said of efforts, expedients, omens, ventures, etc.

Alternative forms

• happie (obsolete)

Synonyms

• (contented, joyous): cheerful, content, delighted, elated, exultant, glad, joyful, jubilant, merry, orgasmic
• (fortunate, lucky): fortunate, lucky, propitious
• See also Thesaurus:happy

Antonyms

• (contented, joyous): blue, depressed, down, miserable, moody, morose, sad, unhappy
• (fortunate, lucky): unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious
• (content, satisfied): disenchanted, dissatisfied
• (appropriate, apt): inappropriate, inapt, unfelicitous

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? German: happy
• ? Welsh: hapus (calque)
• ? Japanese: ????

Translations

Noun

happy (plural happies)

1. (informal, rare) A happy event, thing, person, etc.

Verb

happy (third-person singular simple present happies, present participle happying, simple past and past participle happied)

1. (intransitive, informal) Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
2. (transitive, informal) Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.

Synonyms

• (to make happy): happify

Further reading

• Happy (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English happy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?pi/

Adjective

happy (comparative happyer, superlative am happysten)

1. (colloquial, chiefly predicative) glad; satisfied; momentarily happy

Usage notes

• The German word is used as a synonym of froh (“glad, momentarily happy”) rather than glücklich (“happy, both momentarily and generally in life”).
• On the rare occasion that this adjective is used attributively, the positive form happy typically remains undeclined, whereas the comparation forms are declined in the normal fashion.

English

Etymology 1

Perhaps from French blague (“joke, tall story”), blaguer (“to joke”), from Old Occitan blagar (“to chat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Verb

blag (third-person singular simple present blags, present participle blagging, simple past and past participle blagged)

1. (Britain, informal, transitive) To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.

   Synonyms: obtain, sponge; see also Thesaurus:scrounge

2. (Britain, informal, specifically) To obtain confidential information by impersonation or other deception.

   Synonym: pretext

3. (Polari) To pick up someone.
4. (Britain, informal, 1960s) To inveigle by persuasion.

5. (Britain, informal, 1940s) To deceive; to perpetrate a hoax on.

Translations

Noun

blag (plural blags)

1. (Britain, informal) A means of obtaining something by trick or deception.

2. (Britain criminal slang) An armed robbery.
   • 2014, Echo Freer, Diamond Geezers

     I know your old man's keen for you to learn the ropes an' all that, but let's not forget who's running this blag, shall we?

Adjective

blag (comparative more blag, superlative most blag)

1. (Britain, informal) Fake, not genuine.

   Synonym: fake

Derived terms

• blagger

Translations

Etymology 2

First attested in xkcd: "Mispronouncing".

Noun

blag (plural blags)

1. (humorous) Misspelling of blog. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Etymology 3

Tagalog blag

Interjection

blag

1. (Philippines) An onomatopoeia for the sound of a falling strike. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Further reading

• blag at The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary

References

Anagrams

• Glab

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French blague.

Noun

blag

1. joke

German Low German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl??x/, /bl??x/ (more on the merger of monophthongal A and O)

Adjective

blag

1. Alternative spelling of blaag

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bolg?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blâ??/

Adjective

bl?g (definite bl?g?, comparative bl?ž?, Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. mild, gentle, soft
2. (intensifier, colloquial) any, damn, faintest

Declension

Related terms

• blagost

Derived terms

Further reading

• “blag” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bolg?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blá?k/

Adjective

bl?g (comparative blážji or bl?žji, superlative n?jblážji or n?jbl?žji)

1. mild, gentle, soft

Further reading

• “blag”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran